UkrInform: UN urges to improve humanitarian situation in Donbas

By UkrInform.

Published March 1, 2018 at 9:56 am

Volunteers prepare humanitarian aid packages in a school gym in Avdiyivka, eastern Ukraine, on Feb. 5, 2017. Russian-backed military offensives at the end of January and early February killed at least 30 people and forced many people to seek basic assistance.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Ursula Mueller has called on the international community to take measures to improve the humanitarian situation in the occupied regions in eastern Ukraine.

She stated this at a conference on the humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine on Feb.28, the UN News Center reported.