Weekly Update #7
April 7-12
April 7-12
OVERVIEW OF CURRENT SITUATION
This Overview draws significant elements of the general situation from three major sources:
The OCHA Relief Web portal: https://reliefweb.int/map/ukraine/ukraine-situation-update-snapshot-04-april-2022
The UNHCR Operational Data Portal: https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine
The IOM website https://www.iom.int/news/71-million-people-displaced-war-ukraine-iom-survey
This OCHA map covers the period from 12:00 p.m. on 4 April to 12:00 p.m. on 6 April. The next report will be issued on or around 8 April.
According to the second IOM Internal Displacement Report, there is a total of 11,276,557 people displaced internally including refugees fleeing across the region (IOM_Ukraine Displacement Report_Round 2 (2).pdf).
As of April 6, 2022, more than 4.3 million refugees have fled Ukraine, making this the fastest growing refugee crisis since World War II. A further 7.1 million people have been displaced internally within Ukraine, according to the second Ukraine Internal Displacement Report issued by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). This represents a 10 per cent increase in number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine since the first round of the survey on 16 March.
In total, approximately 11 million people have been displaced within the country and across international borders, including nearly 4.3 million people, mainly women and children, who have fled across international borders – a 30 per cent increase compared to around 3.3 million as of 18 March. Based on the information provided by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) received from the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, more than 537,000 people have crossed into Ukraine since 24 February. This is a significant figure that suggests that migration back to Ukraine is likely increasing, potentially creating new challenges for the humanitarian response as people will need support to reintegrate into their communities or find suitable host communities if returning to their homes is no longer a viable option.
Poland continues to welcome more than half of the refugee influx.
Total Refugee influx from Ukraine in neighboring countries
Country Population
Belarus - 19,096
Hungary - 408,652
Poland - 2,537,769
Republic of Moldova - 404,257
Romania - 671,334
Russian Federation - 373,589
Slovakia - 307,772
https://data.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE IOM DISPLACEMENT REPORT
Since 24 February 2022 the war in Ukraine triggered an unprecedented humanitarian crisis across all of the country’s sub regional divisions oblasts. Between March 24 and April1, the International Organization for Migration conducted the second round of a rapid representative assessment of the general population in Ukraine to gather insights into internal displacement and mobility flows, and to assess local needs. This general population survey serves as a preliminary source to identify areas with high humanitarian needs and to inform the targeting of response aiming to assist the war affected population. The geographical scope of the assessment covers the entire territory of Ukraine, all five macro regions ( East, North, Centre, South, and the city of Kyiv), with the exception of the Crimean peninsula. The general population survey was constructed through a random digit dial (RDD) approach, and 2,000 unique and anonymous respondents aged 18 and over were interviewed using the computer assisted telephone interview (CATI) method. Those currently outside Ukraine were not interviewed. For further notes on method and limitations, including IOM’s definition of internally displaced persons used for the purpose of this assessment, see page 8.
According to the survey, more than 50 per cent of displaced households have children, 57 per cent include elderly members, and 30 per cent have people with chronic illnesses.
Within the first month of the war, the income of displaced households dropped sharply. While only 13 per cent of now displaced households reported a monthly income under 5,000 Ukrainian hryvnias (USD 170) prior to 24 February 2022, currently 61 per cent of them indicate that their household income has been lower than 5,000 hryvnias since the start of the war.
Over one third of displaced households indicate that they have had no income in the last month.
Cash and financial support, transportation, food, shelter, and hygiene items are among the most pressing needs for displaced people. Access to medicines and health services remains the second most pressing need for both those displaced, and those staying at their places of residence.
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THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
Russia continues shelling of Ukraine
Mariupol (Donetska oblast, east) is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. According to local authorities, the situation is much worse than in Bucha and other towns outside Kyiv (Kyivska oblast, north), where laws-of-war violations were allegedly committed against civilians. Mariupol’s Mayor Vadym Boichenko called on the international community to help push forward evacuation processes for 130,000 people still trapped in the city without access to food, water and medicine ( OCHA_Ukraine - Humanitarian Impact Situation Report (As of 1200 p.m. (EET) on 6 April 2022).txt)
As active fighting and shelling intensify in eastern Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vershchuk urges residents across eastern Donetska, Kharkivska and Luhanska oblasts to evacuate while it is still possible, warning that a further escalation could potentially cut off evacuation corridors. (OCHA_Ukraine - Humanitarian Impact Situation Report (As of 1200 p.m. (EET) on 6 April 2022).txt)
The situation in the most affected areas of northern, southern and eastern Ukraine is becoming increasingly dire as active hostilities intensify in existing hotspots and expand into new areas previously spared the worst of the ongoing military offensive. As of 5 April, the civilian toll stands at 3,776 – including 1,563 killed – according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHA_Ukraine - Humanitarian Impact Situation Report (As of 1200 p.m. (EET) on 6 April 2022).txt)
Shelling and hostilities continue in Lysychansk, Hirskehromada, Popasna, Rubizhne and Sievierodonetsk in Eastern Ukraine, where it is reported that over the weekend, more than 140 people were killed in the Luhansk region. Despite the ongoing hostilities, between 30 March and 3 April, more than 5,000 people were evacuated from the region. (https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/ukraine-humanitarian-impact-situation-report-1200-pm-eet-6-april-2022)
In Donetsk, there are an estimated 90,000 households without electricity. Water supply also remains an alarming issue with local authorities having decided to make water available for two hours within a 48-hour period, and in other cities within a 72- hour period.
Following the retreat of Russian forces from the suburbs of Kyiv, Ukraine, at the end of March, reports emerged of hundreds of civilian casualties in previously Russian-occupied areas. Ukrainian authorities have identified the bodies of at least 410 men, women and children in the town of Bucha, many of which were buried in mass graves while others were discovered slain in the street. Reports of targeted killings of civilians in other previously occupied suburbs have also started to emerge. (https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/atrocity-alert-no-295-ukraine-venezuela-and-nigeria)
Health care facilities attacked
On April 7, 2022, WHO reported the 100th attack on health care facilities in Ukraine, claiming 73 lives and injuring 51 (https://www.who.int/news/item/07-04-2022-who-records-100th-attack-on-health-care-in-ukraine).
Of the current total of 103 attacks, 89 have impacted health facilities and 13 have impacted transport, including ambulances. “We are outraged that attacks on health care are continuing. Attacks on health care are a violation of international humanitarian law, said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, at a press conference. “Peace is the only way forward. I again call on the Russian Federation to stop the war.”
This milestone of over 100 attacks on health spans barely 42 days since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began. The impact of this violence is not only immediate, in the numbers of deaths and injuries – but also long-term in the consequences for Ukraine’s health care system. It’s a major blow to the country’s efforts to institute health reforms and achieve universal health coverage, a goal it had made significant progress on before the war erupted.
“Across Ukraine, 1000 health facilities are in proximity to conflict areas or in changed areas of control,” explained Dr Jarno Habicht, WHO Representative in Ukraine. “Health workers throughout the country are risking their lives to serve those in need of medical services, and they, and their patients, must never be targeted. Further, when people are prevented from seeking and accessing health care, either because the facilities have been destroyed or out of fear that they may become a target, they lose hope. The mental health toll wreaked by the war cannot be underestimated, affecting civilians and the health workforce alike."
Russia suspended from Human Rights Council
On 7 April 2022, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Thursday calling for Russia to be suspended from the Human Rights Council. (https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/04/1115782)
The resolution received a two-thirds majority of those voting, minus abstentions, in the 193-member Assembly, with 93 nations voting in favor and 24 against. Fifty-eight abstained from the process. Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Vietnam, were among those who voted against. Those abstaining, included India, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Cambodia.
The resolution was triggered by disturbing photos and reports released this past weekend, from the city of Bucha, a suburb of the capital, Kyiv, where hundreds of civilian bodies were found in the streets and in mass graves following Russia’s withdrawal from the area.
This is not the first time that a Member State has had its membership of the Human Rights Council suspended. Libya lost its seat in 2011, following repression of protests by ruler Muammar Gaddafi, who was later overthrown.
Civilian evacuations halted
On 4 and 5 April, the Government of Ukraine reported that more than 7,220 people were reportedly evacuated through agreed-upon corridors, including nearly 3,050 from the ravaged city of Mariupol. After being blocked at a civilian checkpoint in the town of Manhush (Donetska oblast), a convoy of seven buses attempting to reach Mariupol, accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), was forced to turn back. (https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/ukraine-humanitarian-impact-situation-report-1200-pm-eet-6-april-2022)
The already dire situation in Mariupol is greatly exacerbated by the repeated delay of humanitarian corridors that prevents the evacuation of vulnerable people and the delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance. For more than five weeks, at least 130,000 people stuck in the city have faced critical shortages of food, water and medicines and remain cut off from electricity and communications. On 4 April, local authorities warned that the situation in Mariupol is much worse than in Bucha and other towns on the outskirts of Kyiv, where laws-of-war violations have been allegedly committed against civilian populations.
Children becoming most vulnerable
Over a month of war is taking a devastating toll on millions of people in Ukraine, particularly children and the vulnerable. UNICED reports so far, 4.3 million children have been displaced from their homes and millions more are in desperate need of safety, stability and protection (https://www.unicef.org/ukraine/en/stories/subways-become-safe-spaces-for-children).
As the gunfire and shelling escalates, UNICEF Ukraine is making efforts to build the capacities of NGOs and youth organizations across the country, in order to address the mental health impact of the war and promote the psychosocial wellbeing of those who have been affected by the conflict.
THE UN RESPONSE
UN continues facilitation of humanitarian assistance convoys
On 5 April, a fourth UN-organized convoy facilitated by OCHA through the Humanitarian Notification System (HNS) delivered eight trucks of critical relief supplies for some 17,000 people in Sievierodonetsk (Luhanska oblast, east). (OCHA_Ukraine - Humanitarian Impact Situation Report (As of 1200 p.m. (EET) on 6 April 2022).txt)
The convoy brought ready-to-eat meals, canned goods, flour, plastic sheeting, blankets and other essential relief items, including four hospital generators, expected to benefit at least 17,000 affected people. These items provided by IOM, INGO People In Need (PIN), UNHCR, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) will be distributed to those most in need through the Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS).
According to the Government of Ukraine, as of 6 April, nearly 145,720 tons of humanitarian aid have been delivered to Ukraine from abroad, including 879 tons to Donetska oblast (GCA), almost 2,810 tons to neighbouring Kharkivska oblast and some 70 tons to Luhanska oblast (GCA). Meanwhile, as of 6 April, the Russian Federation reports that it has delivered nearly 12,040 tons of aid to Donetska and Luhanska oblasts (NGCA) and seven other oblasts of Ukraine (Chernihivska (north), Kharkivska, Khersonska (south), Kyivska, Mykolaivska (south), Sumska (north-east) and Zaporizka), including 130 tons delivered to Khersonska and Mykolaivska oblasts on 5 April.
On 5 April, WFP, through its partner the Ukrainian Red Cross, managed to successfully deliver food (five days RRR) to close to 12,000 residents in dire conditions in Chernihiv, considered one of the worst-affected cities in northern Ukraine (WFP-0000138330_6 April.pdf)
Humanitarian partners also continue to scale up their response efforts to match the growing scale of needs in Ukraine. Between 26 March and 1 April, the Danish Red Cross (DRC) received more than 605 tons of relief supplies from Red Cross and Red Crescent (RCRC) Movement partners at the five DRC warehouses in Chernivisti (Chernivetska oblast, west), distributing around 515 tons of humanitarian aid to affected people. Since the escalation of the conflict, DRC has dispatched around 1,850 tons of relief items, providing support to almost 170,000 people.
Similarly, in Slovakia, as part of a new agreement between IOM and Flexport, totalling USD 500,000 for in-kind transportation, the first eight trucks have been scheduled to depart from Turkey on 6 April to Kosice, Slovakia. A total of 85 trucks will be donated to IOM through this agreement (IOM-regional-ukraine-response-external-sitrep-07042022-final.pdf).
At the global level, ECHO has granted IOM permission to use their warehouse in Suceava, Romania, allowing IOM to open a new corridor directly into Ukraine from Romania. The final details are being discussed.
Coordinating across the UN system, on 6 April, humanitarian partners delivered eight trucks of critical supplies for people in the city of Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk oblast. The convoy brought food rations, flour, plastic sheeting and blankets for some 17,000 people, as well as four hospital electricity generators, from IOM, People in Need (PiN), UNHCR, UNICEF and WFP.
Expanded distribution of core relief items
To date, UNHCR has reached more than 154,232 people with core relief items and food assistance across eastern, central and western Ukraine (UNHCR situation flash update 06 04 2022 _edited.pdf). This includes almost 62,000 people who have received core relief items including household items, blankets, hygiene kits, winter clothes, kitchen sets, mattresses and more.
Some 13,000 people have received emergency shelter kits or shelter repairs to strengthen their homes affected by shelling, where people continue to live in precarious conditions. A further 21,500 have received food assistance, including more than 5,000 people who received ready to consume food, and almost 16,500 people who received food packs.
Access to the hardest hit areas remains challenging with continuing security risks, both for affected civilians as well as humanitarian actors. Despite this, UNHCR, as part of interagency humanitarian convoys, has reached 15,600 people in the hardest hit areas with life-saving assistance.
With the overall objective of providing safe, dignified and sustainable living conditions and shelter solutions in conflict-affected areas and along highly transited borders, IOM provides temporary shelter assistance and non-food item (NFI) support to affected refugees and third country nationals (TCNs) (IOM-regional-ukraine-response-external-sitrep-07042022-final.pdf
Provision of health care services accelerated
As of 6 April, WHO has delivered to Ukraine approximately 208 metric tonnes of medical supplies, comprising trauma and emergency care commodities (.WHO-EURO-2022-5152-44915-64177-eng.pdf)
The latest supplies delivered include:
Two ambulance vehicles delivered on 1 April, with additional 20 ambulance vehicles procured and being prepared for shipment, pending donation of a cargo flight to deliver the vehicles; and eight generators, with related accessories and spare parts, for distribution to hospitals, pending security clearance.
To date, WHO has delivered trauma and emergency medical supplies to the following oblasts, Luhansk, Odesa, Poltava, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr. WHO continues to urge guarantees of safe passage to complete deliveries to besieged cities in urgent need of life-saving supplies, medicines and humanitarian assistance.
UNAIDS, UNICEF, WHO, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria delivered 209,000 medicine packs to Lviv (Lvivska oblast, north) that can cover the needs of every person living with HIV in Ukraine for the next 12 months. A donation of the HIV drug dolutegravir will also be available soon to treat infants living with HIV.
The activities of the Emergency Medical Teams Coordination Cells (CCs) in Ukraine run with the support of the Trauma and Rehabilitation Working Group of the Health Cluster have been focusing on: conducting several site visits to tertiary facilities located in the central, southern and eastern part of Ukraine to address specialized care needs; coordinating medical evacuation and transportation requests; and developing and organizing virtual and on-site trainings for health-care workers on topics such as clinical management for chemical exposure and mass casualty.
WHO has also engaged with refugee-receiving countries, including Hungary, Czech, Poland, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, aimed at strengthening specific services to address the needs of the growing numbers of refugees. These include, among others, immunizations, health assessments, safe medical evacuations, and psychological and social assistance.
Roll-out of multipurpose cash assistance
As of 6 April, UN agencies and humanitarian partners of the Cash Working Group, co-chaired by ACTED and OCHA, have reached 68,000 people across Ukraine with around US$15.4 million in multipurpose cash assistance (OCHA_Ukraine - Humanitarian Impact Situation Report (As of 1200 p.m. (EET) on 6 April 2022).txt)
Enrolment in UNHCR’s multipurpose cash assistance programme began in Lviv on 17 March. It has now been rolled out in six more oblasts, including Dnipropetrovska, Khmelnitsky, Mukachevo, Uzhhorod, Vinnytsia and Zakarpattia oblasts (UNHCR situation flash update 06 04 2022 _edited.pdf).
To date, 33,706 people have been enrolled, while some 4,700 people have already received their first payments. UNHCR is rapidly increasing enrolment and expanding the programme, with the aim of reaching 360,000 people with multipurpose cash assistance in the first three months.
To maintain an agile emergency response, WFP uses the most appropriate and context-specific assistance modality and delivery mechanism – combining in-kind with cash – to address surging needs (WFP-0000138330_6 April.pdf). In areas less affected by the conflict, receiving increasing flows of IDPs with limited livelihood opportunities, decreased income and strained purchasing power, WFP is providing cash-based transfers – including commodity and value vouchers – to ensure effective demand and to prop-up food supply chains through injection of cash, building on functioning markets and financial systems.
On 1 April, WFP started multipurpose cash assistance (USD 75 per person) through Western Union (in local currency), reaching 2,723 displaced families (6860 individuals) in Vinnytsia and Chernivsty with a total amount of USD 453,000. This brings WFP total beneficiaries of cash and vouchers to 8,860 in Ukraine. Moreover, WFP is monitoring market dynamics and endeavors to work with the private sector to address critical gaps in the supply chain (lack of fuel, transportation, labor capacities, access) and ease any logistics bottlenecks that would result in localized food shortages.
In Moldova, to date, IOM has provided multi-purpose cash assistance to 985 refugees and 15 third country nationals across five districts of Moldova (Anenii Noi, Chisinau, Cimislia, Criuleni, Laloveni). The transfer value of each voucher is MDL 1,000 and can be redeemed at Linella and Fidesco supermarkets throughout the country (IOM-regional-ukraine-response-external-sitrep-07042022-final.pdf)
Arrangement of humanitarian transportation
As refugees and third country nationals cross into countries neighbouring Ukraine, IOM continues to facilitate transportation assistance within the receiving countries as well as onwards movement for resettlement and family reunification (IOM-regional-ukraine-response-external-sitrep-07042022-final.pdf).
Alongside air transport, IOM continued to facilitate the transport of persons through the humanitarian “Green Corridor” between Moldova and Romania. The mission registered and conducted pre-embarkation health checks for 109 passengers on 5 April. Between 9 March and 5 April, over 6,895 people were transported through the Green Corridor. In partnership with Telecoms sans Frontiers, the mission also installed 20 internet devices on buses transiting the corridor, allowing for free internet throughout the journey to Romania.
UNHCR continues to support bus transfers from Palanca border crossing point to Romaniain support to the Moldovan and Romanian authorities as well as through partner ACTED, and in coordination with IOM, in order to reduce the pressure in border areas in Moldova. To date, some 34,800 refugees were supported with safe onwards transport from Moldova (Ukraine situation flash update No 7 06 04 2022 _edited (1).txt)
Ensuring protection of refugees
The protection situation for most women and children, especially those on the move or trapped inside cities experiencing active hostilities, continues to worsen.
More than 36,000 people have received targeted protection assistance. Providing protection counselling and services, including psychosocial support and legal aid, at border crossing points, online and in locations where people have fled is a key priority for UNHCR (UNHCR situation flash update 06 04 2022 _edited.pdf)
This includes more than 11,000 people who received information and counselling through hotlines; over 9,600 people who received protection support or counselling; over 5,600 who received in-person protection information; almost 3,700 people who received psychosocial support or psychological first aid; more than 2,300 people who received legal counselling or assistance; more than 2,200 who received social support; some 1,000 people who received support for transport; in addition to almost 370 protection monitoring missions.
UNHCR continues to carry out needs assessments in transit and reception centres to provide targeted support to increase the reception capacity for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Some 60 assessments have been carried out with local authorities, while 12 centres are currently being refurbished. This is in addition to 73 other centres which have been equipped with NFIs to increase hosting capacity.
UNHCR is coordinating closely with national and local authorities to reduce the potential risks of gender-based violence (GBV), strengthening prevention and response activities in areas with a high number of IDPs, in collaboration with the social services.
UNHCR is also focusing on capacity development to improve prevention of and response to GBV. 126 frontline responders have been trained on GBV and related topics. UNHCR conducted training for 54 persons on GBV, while the GBV Sub-Working Group in Moldova, co-chaired by UNHCR and UNFPA, trained another 72 people on GBV, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) and trafficking.
UNICEF and UNHCR continue operating three Blue Dot at the Otaci and Palanca border crossing points, as well as at the MoldExpo reception centre in Chisinau. So far, some 5,000 children and caregivers have been supported.
A strong component of IOM’s response both regionally and in specific countries is the provision of individual protection assistance and case management to persons with specific needs and vulnerabilities (IOM-regional-ukraine-response-external-sitrep-07042022-final.pdf). In Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, services such as hotlines, information centers, and consultations are in place to handle concerns related to migration, stay extensions, and border crossings.
Focusing on vulnerable children
UNICEF continues to scale up its response inside Ukraine and across refugee-hosting countries. As of 28 March 2022, UNICEF has dispatched 114 trucks carrying 1,275 metric tons of emergency supplies to support children and families in Ukraine and the bordering countries. So far, 63 trucks of supplies have arrived in Ukraine, which will address the needs of over eight million people, including two million children. The supplies include medicines and medical equipment, winter clothes for children, and hygiene, educational, early childhood development and recreational kits. UNICEF has also started a humanitarian cash transfer programme to support 52,000 of the most vulnerable families inside Ukraine. Find out more by following this link.
FAITH AND INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY RESPONSE
HIGHLIGHTS OF UKRAINE ACTIVITIES of ORDER OF MALTA
LINK: MALTESER INTERNATIONAL_2022-4-6 Comprehensive Report on Situation in Ukraine Order of Malta Order of Malta Network in Eastern Europe
Ongoing Order of Malta Activities in Ukraine
Ukraine
c. 33,000 portions of food and c. 4,500 blankets, field beds, sleeping bags, etc. distributed.
Total of 51 transports of aid goods carried out to 16 locations in Ukraine
Two ambulances have been handed over to hospitals, MI mobile clinic in Lviv
Existing psychosocial aid projects for displaced people continue mobile and online in Eastern Ukraine as well as for displaced people in the West, especially children
First aid training provided to c. 3,200 people
Providing accommodation to 200 displaced people in Lviv and Ivano Frankivsk
Berehove relief organization supporting refugees waiting to cross border at Astei 24/7 and distributing relief goods
Current estimate:
c. 4,615 tons of aid delivered to Ukraine as of 6.4.2022
Activities to help refugees on the Ukrainian border
Hungary
24/7 Support and pick-up service at the border in Beregsurány, accommodation and assistance for incoming refugees in cities, support for Berehove relief organization in Ukraine
Poland
24/7 Service to incoming refugees at Ukrainian border including shuttle service, medical points at border in Hrebenne, and Korczowa on the Ukranian side, food distribution at Lubycza Krolewska and mobile.
Romania
24/7 Service to c. 1,600 incoming refugees daily at Ukrainian border at Sighetu Marmației, Siret and Satu Mare; accommodation and cross border pick-up service for vulnerable people.
Slovakia
24/7 Transportation and accommodation service to incoming refugees at Ukrainian border at Vysne Nemecke. Providing special care to mothers and children. Volunteers will stay until the state has fully taken over.
Preliminary Estimate:
300,000 people helped to date at borders
International volunteer teams in action in Poland and Hungary
Poland
1.4.2022 -16.4.2022: Medical Team from Spanish Association
Polish border point Kroscienco
10.3.2022 – 24.3.2022: Malteser International
24.3.2022 – 1.4.2022: Ordre de Malte France
Currently temporarily closed due to reduced refugee movement
Krakow station
30.3.2022 ff. – Ordre de Malte France
Hungarian Border Point Beregsurány
24.3.2022 ff. Ordre de Malte
NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS
Statement on the arrival of refugees from Ukraine and the application of the Temporary Protection Directive
Link: CG-Ukraine-Statement-Final (10).pdf
Excerpts from Pope Francis’ Address during 6 April 2022 General Audience
POPE FRANCIS
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 6 April 2022
Link: https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/audiences/2022/documents/20220406-udienza-generale.html
Last Thursday, March 31, the Initiative held an online dialogue on War in Ukraine: Human Agony, Global Crisis, Moral Principles. This urgent and moving conversation featured:
Tetiana Stawnychy from Lviv, sharing the heroic efforts of Caritas Ukraine;
Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., reporting on his two visits to Ukraine at the direction of Pope Francis;
Archbishop Borys Gudziak on lessons from his decades of service in Ukraine;
Dr. Laurie Johnston on moral choice and Catholic teaching on war and peace; and
Gerard O'Connell from Rome on the efforts of Pope Francis and the Vatican.
If you were not one of the 1,500 people who joined us, you can access a video recording of the discussion here.
View the video