Statement
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on deadly strikes in Ukraine
NEW YORK, 8 July 2024 –, “I am horrified by the news out of Ukraine today that at least 150 people have reportedly been killed or injured, and a children’s hospital severely damaged in Kyiv, during a wave of deadly missile strikes across the country. “The barrage of missiles fell in cities including Kyiv, Dnipro,...
Press release
Ukraine two years: Children in frontline areas forced to spend up to 5,000 hours – equivalent to nearly 7 months - sheltering underground
NEW YORK/GENEVA/, KYIV, 23 February 2024 –, Children in cities in Ukraine’s frontline areas have been forced to spend between 3,000 and 5,000 hours – equivalent to between four and almost 7 months – sheltering in basements and underground metro stations over the past two years, as air raid alerts sound above. Sinc...
News note
One hundred days of war in Ukraine have left 5.2 million children in need of humanitarian assistance
NEW YORK/GENEVA/KYIV, 1 June 2022 – , Nearly 100 days of war in Ukraine have wrought devastating consequences for children at a scale and speed not seen since World War II, UNICEF said today. Three million children inside Ukraine and over 2.2 million children in refugee-hosting countries are now in need of humanit...
News note
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom in Moldova to meet refugee children fleeing Ukraine war
Photos and video available to download, here ., , CHIȘINĂU/NEW YORK, 25 March 2022, – One month since the start of the war in Ukraine, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom has visited Moldova to meet children and families fleeing Ukraine as refugees. During the two-day trip, Bloom visited a UNICEF-supported “...
Appeal
War in Ukraine poses immediate threat to children
The war in Ukraine poses an immediate and growing threat to the lives and well-being of the country’s 7.5 million children. Humanitarian needs are multiplying by the hour as fighting intensifies. Children have been killed. Children have been wounded. More than 1 million children have fled Ukraine as families des...
Statement
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on reported attack against maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine
NEW YORK, 9 March 2022, – “I am horrified by the reported attack today on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine – an attack which reportedly left young children and women in labor buried beneath the rubble of destroyed buildings. We do not yet know the number of casualties but fear the worst. “This attack, if confirmed, underscores the horrific toll this war is…
News note
First shipment of UNICEF humanitarian aid arrives in Ukraine as conflict escalates
Multimedia materials available , here, ., KYIV, 5 March 2022 –, The first batch of UNICEF humanitarian supplies has arrived today in Lviv, western Ukraine, from UNICEF’s Global Supply and Logistics Hub in Copenhagen. It is part of a six-truck convoy containing an estimated 62 tonnes of supplies on its way to the ...