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Ukraine: Attacks disrupt heating as temperatures plunge

·January 1, 2026·1 min read

According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), since 26 December, attacks nationwide also caused widespread damage to civilian infrastructure, leaving parts of the country without electricity, heating and water, as temperatures drop below zero. Across the country, authorities reported nearly 100 civilian casualties during this period....

Weekend attacks in Ukraine bring more casualties, damage infrastructure

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·December 23, 2025·1 min read

Between Friday and early morning Monday, Ukrainian authorities said that over a dozen civilians were killed and more than 70 others injured, including two children. Basic service disruptions were reported in over 270 towns and villages. The attacks come amid harsh winter conditions in Ukraine and increasing humanitarian needs as attacks last week also disrupted services...

World News in Brief: More UN staff detentions in Yemen, peacekeepers killed in Sudan sent home, attacks in Ukraine

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·December 21, 2025·3 min read

This latest incident, which occurred on Thursday, brings the total number of UN staff currently being held by the Houthis to 69. These detentions have rendered the delivery of humanitarian assistance in Houthi-controlled areas untenable, directly affecting millions of people in need and limiting their access to life-saving assistance, UN...

Ukraine suffering continues as electricity is cut for days amid ongoing Russian attacks

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·December 18, 2025·3 min read

In an update from Ukraine, the UN’s top aid official there, Assistant Secretary-General Matthias Schmale, reports that half the population in Kherson city, about 30,000 or more residents, have been without electricity for several days. It’s not the only city without power, he told UN News on Wednesday, while on...

Ukraine civilians face escalating attacks and mounting hardship, UN warns

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·December 9, 2025·3 min read

“Our findings establish several worrying trends: rising civilian casualties in both frontline and urban areas, sustained attacks on energy infrastructure, and continued patterns of systematic and widespread torture and ill-treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilian detainees,” said Danielle Bell, head of the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), Russia...

Israeli raids and settler attacks deepen humanitarian crisis in West Bank

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·December 5, 2025·2 min read

Between 25 November and 1 December, four Palestinians, including one child, were killed by Israeli forces, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank so far this year to 227. Nearly half of all fatalities in 2025 were recorded in the Jenin and Nablus governorates. Large-scale operations...

Mozambique’s displaced facing massive needs as attacks intensify

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·December 5, 2025·1 min read

According to the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, 107,000 people have fled their homes in recent weeks, pushing total displacement in just the past four months to 330,000. “They barely had time to recover when they again had to leave, due to attacks or fear of attacks,” said Paola Emerson,...

World News in Brief: Justice efforts in Libya, deadly attacks in Ukraine, scores killed since Israel-Lebanon ceasefire

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·November 30, 2025·2 min read

“There is a new momentum towards justice in Libya, and we now look towards the first trial to be held at the Court in this situation,” Nazhat Shameem Khan told ambassadors. She said the arrest of alleged war criminal Khaled El Hishri by German authorities in July is “a clear example of the momentum...

Nigeria: Hundreds abducted in the north as insurgent attacks rise

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·November 30, 2025·1 min read

At least 402 people, mainly schoolchildren, have been kidnapped in four states in the north-central region – Niger, Kebbi, Kwara and Borno – since 17 November, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday. Only 88 have reportedly been freed or escaped from captivity. Call for justice “We are shocked at the recent surge in mass abductions in north-central Nigeria,” OHCHR Spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan said in Geneva....

Gaza women are ‘last line of protection’ for their families amid attacks, hunger and harsh winter

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·November 25, 2025·2 min read

UN Women’s Chief of Humanitarian Action Sofia Calltorp, who just returned from a visit to the enclave last week, said that women there repeatedly told her “there may be a cease-fire, but the war is not over”. “The attacks are fewer, but the killings continue,” she said. The UN aid...

Ukraine: Russian attacks on energy could trigger major ‘crisis within crisis’

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·October 31, 2025·2 min read

The heavy humanitarian and psychological toll of these strikes is compounded by the expectation that this year’s winter will be much colder than last year’s – with the level of destruction of power facilities outpacing the ability to recover. “We are very worried about people living in high-rise buildings in...

Civilians in Ukraine face death and injury amid new attacks

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·October 10, 2025·1 min read

Civilian casualties were 31 per cent higher from January to September 2025 compared to the same period last year, according to HRMMU’s monthly report published on Thursday. “High civilian casualties last month confirm this year’s disturbing pattern of intense violence in Ukraine, as virtually no day passes without civilian deaths or...