Weekly Update #123
July 8, 2024
Weekly Update #123
July 8, 2024
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July 8, 2024
REFUGEE SITUATION
REFUGEE SITUATION
(as of 13 June 2024)
(as of 13 June 2024)
General Figures
General Figures
Refugees from Ukraine recorded across Europe
5,996,500
Last updated June 13 2024
Covers those granted refugee status, temporary asylum status, temporary protection, or statuses through similar national protection schemes, as well as those recorded in the country under other forms of stay
Refugees from Ukraine recorded beyond Europe
558,300
Last updated June 13 2024
Covers those granted refugee status, temporary asylum status, temporary protection, or statuses through similar national protection schemes, as well as those recorded in the country under other forms of stay
Refugees from Ukraine recorded globally
6,554,800
Last updated June 13 2024
Source: UNHCR collation of statistics made available by the authorities
THE HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE
THE HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE
Situation Update
Situation Update
In May, strikes across the country and intensified hostilities continued to severely impact civilians and critical civilian infrastructure, triggering new displacement and leading to power outages for millions of people. Escalated hostilities in Kharkivska Oblast caused massive destruction, forcing over 18,000 people to leave their homes. Civilians were also affected, and homes and civilian infrastructure were damaged in other front-line areas, particularly in Donetska and Khersonska oblasts, as well as in the urban centres of Odesa and Zaporizhzhia. Attacks on energy facilities disrupted electricity and water supply, exacerbating humanitarian needs.
Humanitarian organizations promptly mobilized to provide emergency support to newly displaced people. Complementing the efforts of first responders and local authorities, humanitarian partners supported over 10,000 people through the Kharkiv City Transit Centre, providing accommodation, food, hygiene supplies, clothes, as well as multi-purpose cash assistance, health care and protection services.
As of the end of May 2024, humanitarian assistance in Ukraine reached 5.2 million people. In May alone, 800,000 received at least one form of aid. The assistance was provided by over 500 humanitarian partners, including more than 360 national non-governmental organizations. Aid workers provided water, sanitation and hygiene assistance to some 3.9 million people, mainly through water system maintenance and emergency water supply. Also, nearly 2.7 million people received food assistance and farming-stimulating inputs. Nearly 1.2 million people received health-care assistance, and shelter-related emergency support was provided to almost 1 million people. Some 750,000 people received general protection assistance, and nearly 700,000 children were provided with protection services, including mental health and psychosocial support. Close to 550,000 people received assistance to ensure the continuity of learning despite the disruptions caused by the war. About 500,000 people received multi-purpose cash assistance, providing flexibility for affected families to cover their needs. Humanitarians also continued activities aimed at preventing gender-based violence and supporting survivors, conducted explosive ordnance risk education sessions and improved living conditions for internally displaced people in collective sites.
In the five months of 2024, partners delivered humanitarian assistance through 19 inter-agency convoys, providing aid to nearly 30,000 people in the most-affected front-line areas of Donetska, Kharkivska, Khersonska and Zaporizka oblasts, complementing partners’ regular programming activities.
The overall funding shortfall — only 26 per cent of the US$3.1 billion requested under the Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan received as of the end of May — has resulted in humanitarian actors being unable to respond to critical needs. Predictable and timely funding is needed to ensure sustained humanitarian assistance to existing and newly arising and deepening humanitarian needs as the war continues.
PEOPLE REACHED BY POPULATION GROUP
Source: OCHA
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Damage Impact: Analysis Understanding the Human Impact of Infrastructure Damage in Ukraine’s Conflict-affected Settlements (July 2024)
Damage Impact: Analysis Understanding the Human Impact of Infrastructure Damage in Ukraine’s Conflict-affected Settlements (July 2024)
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has resulted in extensive damage to the built environment, including housing, public services, and critical infrastructure. This widespread destruction is impacting the availability and accessibility of essential services, influencing displacement dynamics, and affecting livelihoods throughout the country.
A refined understanding of the extent, severity, distribution, and socio-economic repercussions of infrastructure damage is crucial to develop effective and localised measures to mitigate and remediate these impacts. This understanding can inform both immediate humanitarian assistance and longer-term recovery and reconstruction efforts.
REACH contributes to these efforts by producing Damage Impact Analyses, which combine geo-spatial and qualitative data to provide insights into how communities experience and cope with infrastructural damage, highlighting the complex interconnections between affected sectors.
These analyses include indicative sectoral “impact scores” and participatory maps that reflect the perceptions of impacted populations regarding damage impacts. This approach offers a thorough view of the broader implications of infrastructure damage in Ukraine, supporting effective, informed decision-making for recovery and reconstruction initiatives.
Key Findings
Across the five settlements, education and livelihoods were found to be highly impacted by damage. Similarly, access to water and hygiene was found to be highly impacted in all but one city. In Mykolaiv and Kherson, the impact of damage on access to healthcare and essential goods was reportedly low.
There was extensive damage to the built environment. Participants described how recovery is limited by the damage to housing, for example where skilled workers are less able to find accommodation. They described how damage to transport infrastructure exacerbates spatial inequalities in access to essential services.
At the time of data collection, there were some signs of recovery; although people faced considerable challenges, they described progress that had been made in restoring services.
Nevertheless, the ongoing threat of conflict-related damage led many participants to express frustration, with an expectation that recovery would be a significant challenge for the long-term.
Source: REACH
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Ukraine: Humanitarian Access Severity Overview (As of 31 May 2024)
Ukraine: Humanitarian Access Severity Overview (As of 31 May 2024)
Humanitarian access in Ukraine continues to be primarily driven by war dynamics. The escalation of hostilities and deteriorating security environment limits the ability of humanitarian actors to access people in need in locations close to the front line, and attacks affecting civilian infrastructure across the country impact humanitarian actors’ capacity to operate. In May 2024, changes in the operational environment, such as the cross-border incursion in Kharkivska Oblast, increases in strikes against Kharkiv City and the border areas of Sumska Oblast, and advances by the Russian Federation in Donetska Oblast had a significant impact on the perception of humanitarian access by partners, raising access severity scores in the face of uncertainty.
ACCESS SEVERITY LEVELS AND CONSTRAINTS
The survey results indicate that security-related factors are the key driver of the perception of humanitarian access.
Participants in the survey showed a tendency to assign higher access severity scores to areas that had seen recent deteriorations in the security situation, such as Mykolaiv City, Bilopilska Hromada in Sumska Oblast and Kharkivska Oblast.
Distance to the front line also tended to determine partners’ perception of humanitarian access severity. Partners listed among concerns the intensity of hostilities and physical security risks close to the front line, associated restrictions on movement, including formal permits, and logistical challenges brought about by damaged civilian infrastructure.
With security being such a prevalent concern, humanitarian actors operating in front-line communities tended to pay less attention to other impediments, such as bureaucratic or administrative access constraints. The “denial of the existence of humanitarian needs or of entitlements to humanitarian assistance”, “interference in the implementation of humanitarian activities” and “restrictions on, or obstruction of, war-affected people’s access to services and assistance” were not flagged by any of the consulted partners. In some hromadas, according to focus group discussions, while local authorities might have not always been seen as forthcoming and cooperative with the humanitarian community, this was not tantamount to an access impediment.
The military mobilization of humanitarian staff was flagged by many humanitarian actors as an access constraint. With different degrees of severity between regions, the mobilization of male staff reportedly made humanitarian actors limit activities, see staff leave their posts and suspend project implementation due to contractors’ reluctance to expose their staff.
Participating humanitarian actors replied that they faced “the restriction of movement of agencies, personnel or goods within the affected area” with the most intense fighting and travel bans on civilian movement. However, there were no reports of delays or significant denials, unwarranted searches or arbitrary refusal in granting mission permits.
“Military operations and ongoing hostilities impeding humanitarian operations” were identified as having prevented humanitarian access mainly in areas near the front line and the border with the Russian Federation, and in some urban centres due to air strikes.
“Violence against humanitarian personnel, assets and facilities” mostly affected partners operating in Donetska and Kharkivska oblasts. While there were no reported incidents of humanitarian staff directly affected by land mine or UXO contamination, or of any humanitarian mission aborted due to the presence of mines, humanitarian partners flagged this as an impediment for areas with confirmed contamination, noting the need for mine awareness and relevant mitigation measures. This referred not only to areas exposed to active fighting but also to areas which had been under occupation in 2022 and may remain contaminated.
“Physical environment” impediments were mainly associated with impassable roads due to strikes impacting infrastructure, such as bridges across rivers, including those that had been destroyed in early 2022. While the generally poor state of transport infrastructure leading to remote villages was identified as a concern, this factor’s impact was registered across Ukraine and, in many instances, was not war-related.
Source: OCHA
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Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, 1 March to 31 May 2024
Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, 1 March to 31 May 2024
Extensive Civilian Harm from Russian Attacks This Spring
The increase in attacks by Russian armed forces during March, April, and May caused extensive civilian casualties and significant damage to civilian property and infrastructure, according to a new report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) prepared by the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU).
The report details the human rights situation in Ukraine between 1 March and 31 May 2024, illustrating the compounded difficulties civilians face, ranging from immediate physical harm to long-term socio-economic challenges.
It highlights the human rights impact of the Russian armed forces’ renewed large-scale attacks on critical energy infrastructure starting in March, their ground offensive into the Kharkiv region in May, and other developments in both occupied territory and in the Government-controlled areas of Ukraine.
“With May having the highest monthly number of civilian casualties in nearly a year,fighting this spring took a horrific toll on civilians, particularly in Kharkiv region and city” said Danielle Bell, the Head of HRMMU. “The relentless attacks resulted in tragic loss of life, displacement, and destruction of homes and businesses.”
Among the main reasons for the extensive civilian harm, HRMMU identified the use of powerful air-dropped bombs and missiles in populated areas and at least five instances of successive attacks on the same location within a short interval (sometimes referred to as “double-tap” attacks), which caused numerous casualties among first responders.
During the reporting period, Russian armed forces launched their largest campaign of attacks against critical energy infrastructure since the winter of 2022-2023, killing and injuring civilians, and affecting millions of people across the country.
“Five waves of attacks against energy infrastructure resulted in civilian casualties and significant power cuts for millions of people across the country, with cascading effects on water supply, mobile and internet connectivity, and public transportation,” said Bell. “The full impact of the attacks on energy infrastructure will only be clear this upcoming winter when the reduced power-generating capacity of Ukraine could leave many without access to heating and other services necessary for their survival,” she added.
In territory controlled by the Government of Ukraine, HRMMU documented continued prosecution of people on charges of “collaboration activities” for actions that, in principle, could be lawfully compelled by the occupying Power. However, during the reporting period, the Government took steps to improve compliance with international human rights and humanitarian law in this respect.
In occupied territory, residents faced further pressure from the occupying authorities to obtain Russian citizenship, which they needed to access medical services and maintain their property rights. Family members of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilian detainees described to HRMMU the anxiety and suffering caused by the lack of information about their loved ones as the Russian Federation continued to deny those detained regular communication with the outside world. Additionally, a new law in the Russian Federation further entrenched impunity for violations committed by its armed forces.
The report will be presented to the Human Rights Council on 9 July at 10:00.
Source: OHCHR
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Despite hardships brought by war, flowers fill Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities
Despite hardships brought by war, flowers fill Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities
Flowers have always been linked with Ukraine’s culture, but since Russia’s 2022 invasion, their significance has only grown, with blooms becoming a symbol of both resistance and hope.
Despite hardships brought by war — or perhaps because of them — Ukrainians take every chance they can to fill Kyiv and other cities with flowers from the country’s vast rural heartland, anxious to reconnect with and rediscover their roots.
Deep purple petunias and yellow rock roses burst out of planters that line Kyiv’s backroads and grand boulevards. Some are fixed to lampposts; flowers can even be spotted in Ukraine’s prison yards.
They are depicted on Ukrainian banknotes, textile patterns and murals — next to advertising billboards and army recruitment posters. Across the country, young men on dates and soldiers, sometimes missing a limb, carry bouquets on their return home.
On the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, where the Russian advance was halted two years ago, residents still tend to the gardens of their damaged or completely destroyed homes. A park in Kyiv, near the left bank of the Dnieper River, features a large flower installation, welcoming F-16 fighter jets due to arrive this summer from Ukraine’s Western allies.
Sunflowers, grown since the 1700s in Ukraine, have become the country’s national flower — a symbol of Ukraine’s defiance and resilience in the war.
Fields of the shoulder-high flowers are often seen across Ukraine and Zelenskyy’s Cabinet named the flower the symbol of national Remembrance Day in 2020.
Source: AP News
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Russian strikes leave thousands in northern Ukraine without power and water
Russian strikes leave thousands in northern Ukraine without power and water
Russian strikes overnight left over 100,000 households without power in northern Ukraine and cut off the water supply to a regional capital, Ukrainian authorities reported Saturday, while civilian casualties rose sharply in the country’s embattled east.
The northern Sumy region, which borders Russia, was plunged into dark after Russian strikes late Friday damaged energy infrastructure, the Ukrainian Energy Ministry said. Hours later, the Ukrainian public broadcaster reported that Russian drones hit the provincial capital, also called Sumy, cutting off water by hitting power lines that feed its system of pumps.
Russian state agency RIA cited a local pro-Kremlin “underground” leader as saying that Moscow’s forces overnight hit a plant producing rocket ammunition in the city, which had a pre-war population of over 256,000. The report didn’t specify what weapon was used, and the claim could not be independently verified. Explosions rocked the city during an air raid warning early Saturday, according to Ukrainian media reports.
In the Donetsk region in the east, Russian shelling on Friday and overnight killed 11 civilians and wounded 43, local Gov. Vadym Filashkin reported on Saturday. Five people died in the town of Selydove southeast of Pokrovsk, the eastern city that has emerged as a front-line hotspot. The Ukrainian General Staff on Saturday morning said that Ukrainian and Russian forces clashed 45 times near Pokrovsk over the previous day.
A Ukrainian military spokesperson on Thursday told the AP that Ukrainian forces had retreated from a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Chasiv Yar. The town’s elevated location gives it strategic importance, and military analysts say its fall would put nearby cities in jeopardy. It could also compromise critical Ukrainian supply routes and bring Russia closer to its stated aim of seizing the entire Donetsk region.
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russian forces on Friday and overnight launched six rocket strikes and 55 airstrikes across Ukraine, and used more than 70 “glide bombs” — retrofitted Soviet-era weapons that have wrought devastation in the country in recent weeks.
Source: AP News
STATUS OF THE CONFLICT
STATUS OF THE CONFLICT
Russian President Vladimir Putin explicitly rejected Russian participation in any meaningful negotiations on a ceasefire agreement, instead demanding Ukraine's "irreversible" "demilitarization" as a precondition for any ceasefire agreement. Putin is thus demanding that Ukraine effectively surrender in advance of any ceasefire. Putin commented on the prospects of a negotiated ceasefire in Ukraine at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, on July 4, but instead of offering his typical feigned interest in such negotiations he outright rejected any ceasefire negotiation process. Putin has repeatedly portrayed the West as his envisioned negotiating partner in a ceasefire agreement in order to prompt Western concessions on Ukrainian sovereignty, but Putin notably dismissed all intermediary parties as possible mediators for an agreement between Ukraine and Russia.
Putin instead highlighted his demand for Ukraine's "demilitarization" as a primary prerequisite for any ceasefire agreement, demanding that Ukraine agree to "demilitarization" measures that would be irreversible. Putin argued that Russia cannot allow the Ukrainian military to take advantage of a ceasefire to reconstitute its forces.
Source: ISW (July 4)
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban continues to posture himself as a potential mediator to end the war in Ukraine despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's rejection of mediation or serious negotiations. Orban is likely aiming to shift Western focus towards possible peace negotiations as part of his overarching effort to undermine European support for Ukraine. Orban published an op-ed in Newsweek on July 5 in which Orban accused NATO of choosing conflict over peace and stated that NATO was established to maintain peace.
Orban's and others' calls for negotiations and Ukraine's peace formula are distinct efforts with different aims, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has demonstrated that he is not interested in any negotiated agreements short of Ukraine's capitulation. Putin rejected Russian participation in possible ceasefire negotiations processes and denied interest in a ceasefire altogether on July 4 and 5.
Putin instead demanded Ukrainian capitulation through "demilitarization" and the surrender of significant territory that Russia does not currently occupy — all following months of attempts to portray Russia as willing to negotiate but falsely painting Ukrainian officials as either unwilling or unable to negotiate. Ukraine recently concluded the first of multiple summits with its partners to establish conditions for possible future negotiations that would result in an enduring peace on terms acceptable to Ukraine and its supporters, and dozens of partner states and international organizations, including Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria, signed a Joint Peace Communique affirming their support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity on June 16
Source: ISW (July 6)
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Day of mourning in Dnipro after Russian attack on schools and hospitals
Day of mourning in Dnipro after Russian attack on schools and hospitals
A day of mourning has been announced for Thursday after a Russian missile and drone strike killed at least five people and wounded 53 in the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Wednesday. Borys Filatov, the city’s mayor, said on Telegram that the attack damaged kindergartens, schools and hospitals and caused fires across the city. Commercial buildings were also damaged, officials said. As part of a plea for more air defences and long-range weapons, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy published footage on Telegram showing a large explosion in the sky followed by a fireball shooting down towards the ground. “This Russian terror can only be stopped by modern air defences and our long-ranged weapons,” Zelenskiy said. “The world can protect lives, and only the decisiveness of leaders is needed.” Olha, the manager of a cafe that was hit, told Reuters: “Inside, everything is damaged, outside everything is also damaged. I’ve got jitters on my body, my hands … it’s all very complicated and scary.”
Source: The Guardian
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Air strike leaves 100,000 without power in Ukraine
Air strike leaves 100,000 without power in Ukraine
A Russian attack on a power facility in Ukraine has left 100,000 people without power in the north-western region of Sumy.
Work is under way to restore power, National grid operator Ukrenergo said, following the strikes, which caused emergency shut-offs for consumers in the city and region of Sumy, which borders Russia.
There were no reports of casualties or damage apart from the energy facility, Reuters reports.
Russia continues to pummel energy facilities across Ukraine, often plunging the country into extended blackouts with people enduring sweltering summer conditions without running water, air conditioning, or life-saving medical equipment.
Over the past three months alone, Ukraine has lost nine gigawatts of generating capacity, the national energy company Ukrenergo says, losing all of its thermal power plants to enemy action and seeing all hydroelectric sites damaged by drones or missile strikes.
This is enough to power the whole of the Netherlands during peak hours of consumption, and more than a third of the capacity Ukraine had before Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022, according to the national grid operator.
Poland has been diverting surplus electricity to Ukraine to help it cope with the Russian strikes, but Ukrenego has scheduled cut-offs of electricity throughout the day across the country as domestic generation and electricity imports could not cover the deficit.
Source: BBC
UPDATES ON INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE
UPDATES ON INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE
Defense Secretary Austin says the US will provide $2.3 billion more in military aid to Ukraine
Defense Secretary Austin says the US will provide $2.3 billion more in military aid to Ukraine
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday that the U.S. will soon announce an additional $2.3 billion in security assistance for Ukraine, to include anti-tank weapons, interceptors and munitions for Patriot and other air defense systems.
Austin’s remarks came as Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov met with him at the Pentagon. And they mark a strong response to pleas from Kyiv for help in battling Russian forces in the Donetsk region.
Of that total, $150 million of the aid will come from presidential drawdown authority (PDA) and the remainder will be provided by Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI). PDA allows the Pentagon to take the weapons from its stocks and send them more quickly to Ukraine; USAI puts weapons on longer-term contracts.
The announcement comes just days before the U.S. hosts the NATO summit in Washington and as Ukraine has continued to lobby for military support and acceptance into the alliance.
Including the latest $2.3 billion, the U.S. has committed more than $53.5 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022.
Source: AP News
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The US Department of Defense (DoD) announced the purchase of $2.2 billion worth of US-produced air defense interceptors and an aid package worth $150 million for Ukraine on July 3. The DoD stated that it will purchase $2.2 billion worth of recently produced PATRIOT and NASAMS air defense missiles for Ukraine to help protect the Ukrainian people and Ukraine's critical infrastructure from Russian drone and missile strikes. The DoD has yet to announce that it is sending these air defense missiles to Ukraine. The DoD stated that it is also provided an aid package worth $150 million from the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), which includes: HAWK air defense missiles; HIMARS ammunition; 155mm and 105mm artillery shells; 81mm mortar rounds; Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles; Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems; small arms ammunition and grenades; demolition equipment and munitions; tactical vehicles and air navigation systems; and space parts, maintenance, and other equipment. The DoD noted that the PDA package is the Biden Administration's 60th tranche of equipment provided to Ukraine since August 2021.
Source: ISW (July 4)
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Election outcomes won’t change its Ukraine support, says the UN General Assembly’s president
Election outcomes won’t change its Ukraine support, says the UN General Assembly’s president
The U.N. General Assembly will keep standing up for Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty whatever the outcome of national elections across the globe this year, the body’s president said Wednesday, adding that “no country has the right to invade another country.”
That stance “cannot change because this is a matter of law,” General Assembly President Dennis Francis told The Associated Press during his first visit to Ukraine as Kyiv’s forces battle Russia’s invasion for a third year.
The U.N.'s main policy-making body has given broad support for efforts to uphold Ukraine’s sovereignty, Francis said.
But elections this year in the U.S. and in a handful of key European Union countries have raised concerns about a potential shift in policies among Western nations whose military and financial support has been crucial for Ukraine to thwart the Kremlin’s ambitions.
Speaking in Kyiv at the end of a two-day visit, Francis called on Russia “to withdraw immediately all its military forces from the territory of Ukraine” — a reference to a General Assembly resolution that was approved shortly after the outbreak of the war. More than two years later, Moscow’s army is slowly seizing new land in eastern Ukraine.
Francis met with Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to discuss peace and international security. He pledged support for Zelenskyy’s peace plan, which was discussed at a recent international gathering in Switzerland attended by scores of countries and bodies, including the U.N.
Source: AP News
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UK Foreign Minister David Lammy emphasizes Ukraine support in Poland visit
UK Foreign Minister David Lammy emphasizes Ukraine support in Poland visit
UK Foreign Minister David Lammy met with his Polish counterpart Radek Sikorsky on Sunday as part of his first trip abroad since being appointed on Friday.
Lammy and the UK's new Labour government are seeking to reset relations with European partners, with the new foreign minister stating that he would visit "key partners" Germany, Poland and Sweden for security and cooperation talks, especially as regards support for Ukraine in its ongoing war against invading Russian forces.
The diplomat said Britain's economic and security support for Kyiv would be unwavering, and that his government would seek a "reset" with European partners on climate protection, energy and immigration.
Lammy's appointment followed a landslide victory for the Labour Party in elections called by now former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, a Conservative.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer will fly to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to attend a NATO summit hosted by President Joe Biden.
Source: DW
HOLY FATHER ON UKRAINE
HOLY FATHER ON UKRAINE
Angelus - July 7, 2024 (Sunday)
Angelus - July 7, 2024 (Sunday)
From this city, let us renew our commitment to pray and work for peace: for martyred Ukraine, for Palestine and Israel, for Sudan, Myanmar and every people that suffers because of war. Let us invoke the intercession of the Virgin Mary, venerated on Monte Grisa as Mother and Queen.
Da questa città rinnoviamo il nostro impegno a pregare e operare per la pace: per la martoriata Ucraina, per la Palestina e Israele, per il Sudan, il Myanmar e ogni popolo che soffre per la guerra. Invochiamo l’intercessione della Vergine Maria, venerata sul Monte Grisa come Madre e Regina.
Links to the full text in ENGLISH and ITALIANNEWS
NEWS
Pope Francis asks Sacred Heart of Jesus to convert hearts who want war
Pope calls for renewed commitment to pray and work for peace
Parolin: democracy is in crisis, Catholics too have the task of filling it with values (Google translate - Original IT)
Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas: "We must continue to pray for the conversion of Russia" (Google translate)
MEMBER PHOTOS
MEMBER PHOTOS
Thousands of tons of food and humanitarian goods have been transported to Ukraine and distributed to some 70 locations countrywide. Under the coordination of Malteser International, the Order of Malta’s organisations have guaranteed healthcare logistics since the beginning of the war in February 2022, distributing food at border crossings, in the shelters and railway stations. As the conflict evolved, relief efforts extended to the eastern and southern regions, supplying over 300,000 people with crucial supplies such as food and generators. (courtesy of Order of Malta)
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