Armed conflict

Sasha and friends walk to the bus stop past a gate damaged by shelling.

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Conflict in Ukraine

Read how we support children caught in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

20/10/2017

Yura Khromchenko, 9, in the kindergarten class room t

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430,000 children continue to bear the brunt of eastern Ukraine conflict – UNICEF

UN children’s agency calls on all parties to end ongoing fighting

02/12/2019

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Nearly 70,000 children displaced as violence escalates in northeast Syria

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

14/10/2019

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Mine Victim Assistance Needs

Assesment Report

01/10/2019

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Ukrainian boy who lost his hand in explosion

Mine survivor

30/09/2019

On 21 September 2018 in Ukraine, Sasha Shapovalenko, 9, at home in Bakhmutka in the Donetsk Region.

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Millions of people risk being cut off from safe water as hostilities escalate in Eastern Ukraine – UNICEF

Volatile shelling affects vital water infrastructure five times during the last week of June

03/07/2019

Sonia, 14, has experienced numerous attacks in and on her way to school in eastern Ukraine.

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Schoolchildren caught in the crossfire

In the small town of Novotoshkivske in eastern Ukraine children live under the constant threat of shelling

21/05/2019

Sonia’s classmate and friend Oleksii walkng through the shelled halls of Novotoshkivske school.

Press release

Attacks on schools quadruple in conflict-hit eastern Ukraine – UNICEF

Since the start of eastern Ukraine’s five-year conflict, more than 750 educational facilities on both sides have been damaged or destroyed due to hostilities

20/05/2019

On 22 September 2018 in Ukraine, Dima Mikhalyov, 15, on his bicycle carrying water in bottles on his handlebars next to a field of antitank barriers on the outskirts of in Bakhmutka in the Donetsk region.

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Where getting water means putting your life on the line

Five years since conflict began in eastern Ukraine, children and their families find just getting water puts them in the firing line.

22/03/2019

Oleksiy Dukhovy, a water worker, stands next to his truck that hit an anti-tank mine in a conflict-affected eastern Ukraine, February 2019.

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Water heroes

Workers risk lives restoring water supplies in conflict-affected Donbas

21/03/2019

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