The two-year-old conflict in eastern Ukraine has left about 1.5 million people hungry, including nearly 300,000 in need of immediate help, the World Food Program, the main anti-hunger humanitarian agency of the United Nations, said on Monday.
New York Times: Ukraine conflict brings hunger crisis
Red Cross employees install billboards reading "Danger! Mines! Do not leave the road!" on a roadside near Ukrainian village of Berezove, Donetsk region on March 28, 2016. The billboards depicting a skull and crossbones on a blood-red background stand on a roadside in war-torn eastern Ukrainian. Though fighting between Kiev's forces and pro-Russian rebels has dwindled after nearly two years, mines scattered across the vital industrial region that is home to some three millions people continue claiming lives at an alarming rate. A March report prepared by the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said explosive devices had killed 21 people and injured 57 in the preceding three months.
