Ukraine

750,000 children at risk of being cut off from safe drinking water after increased shelling in eastern Ukraine – UNICEF

KYIV, Ukraine/GENEVA 16 June 2017 – At least 750,000 children are at imminent risk of being cut off from safe drinking water following a surge in fighting in eastern Ukraine, warned UNICEF today.

Child rights animation

110 Early Intervention Specialists Graduate in Kharkiv

Kharkiv, 2 June 2017 – After 9 months of intensive training, Ukraine’s first early intervention specialists graduated in Kharviv. The 110 are the first group of graduates supported by UNICEF that seeks to contribute to the development of Ukraine’s early intervention system.

 

Community protection

200,000 children need urgent support to overcome trauma of volatile conflict in eastern Ukraine – UNICEF

KYIV/GENEVA, 7 April 2017 – More than 200,000 children – or 1 in 4 - in the two regions most severely affected by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine require urgent and sustained psychosocial support to address the trauma of living through more than three years of violence..

Life in eastern Ukraine

Italy donates EUR 1 million to WFP and UNICEF for people affected by conflict in Eastern Ukraine

Kyiv, Ukraine, 23 February 2017 – The Government of Italy has donated EUR 1 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF to assist people affected by the conflict in Eastern Ukraine in 2017.

Orlando Bloom in Ukraine