The UN condemns the “inexcusable” bombings in Ukraine

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29 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Matthew Hollingworth, has condemned the wave of bombings this Friday against several Ukrainian cities, and has assured that they have been the most intense in recent weeks.

At least 24 people have been killed — 22 of them by a missile strike on a residential building in the city of Uman, in the Cherkasy region — and dozens have been injured in the attacks, with homes and buildings destroyed. vital infrastructures, according to a UN statement.

“It is simply inexcusable that in places like Uman, far from the front lines, civilians were killed while they slept in their homes. This must stop,” Hollingworth said.

The executive director of the UN for Children, Catherine Russell, has denounced that at least three children have died in the attack on Uman, and that another three-year-old boy has died in the city of Dnipro. “War is the worst enemy of children. Violence must stop”, she has concluded her.

UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric added that numerous civilians have been killed and killed by Ukrainian attacks that hit a bus and a hospital in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk.

“It is important to remember that the civilian population and infrastructure are protected by International Humanitarian Law and must never be attacked, regardless of the location of these facilities,” Dujarric said.

HUMANITARIAN AID

The UN has also warned that the intensification of the fighting has increased humanitarian needs, and has reported that, since January, almost 40 humanitarian convoys have been organized, even going to areas that were “a couple of hundred meters” from the front. of battle.

Aid workers on Friday delivered six truckloads of essential supplies — medical supplies and food — for six months to some 3,000 people around Lyman in the Donetsk region.