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

·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...

World News in Brief: Russian rights abuses in Ukraine, US a no-show for rights review, Orlando Blooms highlights Rohingya plight

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·November 8, 2025·3 min read

During their mission from 2 to 6 November, the three members of the Human Rights Council-mandated Commission of Inquiry met survivors, families of victims and human rights groups in Kyiv. “People spoke of unimaginable suffering – homes destroyed, loved ones killed, and lives upended,” said chairperson Erik Møse. The investigators...

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...

Russian strikes on Ukraine kill at least six civilians, injure dozens

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·October 22, 2025·1 min read

“At least six civilians were killed, including two children and over 30 people injured” due to missile and drone attacks, underscored the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMM) in a social media post. Monitors said they had visited one kindergarten which had been seriously damaged during drone strikes...

Ukraine: Top humanitarian strongly condemns Russian attack on UN aid convoy

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·October 15, 2025·1 min read

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country, Matthias Schmale, strongly condemned the attack. “Today, an inter-agency convoy of four humanitarian trucks, clearly marked as belonging to the UN, carrying aid, came under attack by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation when delivering aid to Bilozerka Town in the Kherson...

Ukraine suffers renewed, massive Russian airstrikes overnight

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·September 30, 2025·2 min read

According to the Ukrainian authorities, the attack lasted around 12 hours and involved nearly 600 drones, 46 cruise missiles and five rockets. “More lives have been lost…homes have been impacted [and] children are among the casualties,” said the UN aid coordination office, OCHA. Densely populated Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia were among...

UN warns of escalation risk after large-scale Russian drone incursion into Poland

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·September 13, 2025·1 min read

She said it was not the first time drones had been spotted beyond Ukraine’s borders “but it is the first time that multiple drones have flown so deep into a neighbouring country’s airspace.” Ms. DiCarlo said the UN had no way of verifying any claims or counter-claims surrounding the incident...

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: NATO allies rally round Poland in face of Russian incursion, as drone warfare takes centre stage

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·September 13, 2025·1 min read

The Security Council is meeting in emergency session at Poland’s request at 3pm in New York, after some 19 Russian drones violated their and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) airspace earlier this week. It marked the most serious incursion into NATO territory since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began...

Ukraine: Russian strike on village kills over 20, mostly pensioners

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·September 9, 2025·2 min read

The attack on Yarova injured nearly 20 others. Many elderly civilians have decided to stay at home in frontline communities, despite the escalating danger from Russia’s continuing offensive, said Assistant Secretary-General Matthias Schmale, the UN’s top humanitarian official in the country. “This lasting violence continues to tear lives apart. In recent...

UN provides urgent support after ‘massive’ Russian attack across Ukraine

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·September 8, 2025·1 min read

More than 800 drones were launched in waves designed to overwhelm Ukrainian air defences, according to news reports, and a Government building was hit in the capital Kyiv for the first time. Ukrainian authorities reported that four had been killed, with 44 injured. Air-raid sirens continued for 11 hours straight...

Ukraine: ‘Diplomatic momentum’ at risk amid large-scale Russian strikes

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·August 30, 2025·2 min read

Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas, was speaking a day after the latest wave of Russian airstrikes across the country, with at least 23 people killed in the capital, Kyiv. “The mounting death toll and devastation caused by the intensifying fighting over the summer, run...

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Push for peace in Ukraine could rapidly fade if large-scale Russian attacks continue

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·August 29, 2025·1 min read

The UN Security Council met in emergency session in New York on Friday afternoon following overnight strikes early on Thursday by Russia on Ukrainian cities including the capital, which left at least 23 dead, including four children. Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča told ambassadors that diplomatic momentum towards a possible peace...