The youngest victim of the bombing raid was two and a half years old, according to the United Nations Fund for the United Nations, UnicefWho has published video sequences showing smoke which escapes from a kyiv building with a massive hole where its roof was.
A major condemnation of attacks, the UN Secretary General said that the targeting of civilians and civil infrastructure had violated international humanitarian law. [They] are “unacceptable and must end immediately”, followed by a ceasefire resulting in “just, complete and lasting peace in Ukraine,” he insisted, in a statement published by his spokesperson.
Testimony of eyewitnesses
Talk to UN News After visiting the broken building and its residents, the UNICEF representative, Munir Mammadzade, insisted that nowhere in Ukraine is safe today. The air raid alert in Kyiv lasted almost 12 hours, he noted.
The senior United Nations also condemned “continuous attacks” involving missiles and ballistic drones by Russia, which launched a large -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
“I am back from one of the sites that have been affected, seriously … and again, the research and rescue operation continues,” he said. “Throughout the city, four children were confirmed killed and more than 10 injured; These figures will probably increase. ”
Media reports have indicated new damage to civil infrastructure, including Ukrainian railways. The Russian attacks also continued closer to the front line, targeting key energy infrastructure before winter, warned Mr. Mammadzade.
Winter is the main threat
Despite the current international efforts to end the war in Ukraine which caused a “high level of skepticism” among the people of kyiv and in the front line areas, Founding temperatures are “the biggest challenge”, The UNICEF senior official insisted, in a call to donors and partners to support the winter plan of the United Nations agency by contributing more to its Ukrainian humanitarian fund, which faces a 40%financing deficit.
People less than 10 kilometers (about six miles) of the first line “require immediate support,” said UNICEF manager, so that “families and children can survive and, above all, protect their livelihoods”.
Back to school
The development comes as the children of the country are preparing to return to school in a context of omnipresent air sirens which “become a kind of standard”, even if the impact of the war on the mental health of many young people is as serious as it is common.
“We know that even if the war ends today, [it] will be for future generations, ” Mr. Mammadzade explained, pointing to sudden moods linked to post-traumatic stress and feelings of despair in the children he met in front line areas, including Donetsk, Sumy and Kharkiv.
“What they fear the most is their life and, unfortunately, very often, they tell us that they have no dreams or hope,” he continued. “” What they only need is peace – And this peace occurs as soon as possible – so that they can return to normality. »»
In his call renewed to a ceasefire, the secretary general insisted that he should fully maintain “the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine, in its international borders, in accordance with international borders, in accordance with international borders, in accordance with international borders, in accordance with international borders, in accordance with international borders, in accordance with international borders, in accordance with international borders, in accordance with international borders, in accordance with international borders, in accordance with international borders, in accordance with ” Charter of the United Nationsinternational law and relevant United Nations resolutions ”.
Publicado anteriormente en Almouwatin.
