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

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

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.

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.

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

Water heroes

Workers risk lives restoring water supplies in conflict-affected Donbas

Syrian refugee girls collect water provided by UNICEF at a camp in Lebanon

More than 180 million people lack basic drinking water in countries ravaged by conflict or unrest

Children living in fragile situations are four times more likely to lack access to basic drinking water

Following intense fighting in Avdiivka, Ukraine, people and children stand outside a heated emergency shelter.

01 February 2017

Heavy fighting in Ukraine leaves thousands of children cold, thirsty and out of school

UNICEF press release