Between Friday and Monday morning, Ukrainian authorities said that more a dozen civilians were killed and more than 70 others injured, including two children. Disruptions to basic services were reported in more than 270 cities and towns.
These attacks occur in a harsh winter context in Ukraine and in a context of growing humanitarian needs. attacks last week also disrupted services and caused several deaths.
Almost daily attacks
The Odessa region is particularly affected and suffers almost daily attacks, according to OCHA. On Friday, a nighttime attack targeting port infrastructure killed eight civilians and injured 27 others. Repeated strikes have also cut power, affecting tens of thousands of people.
Additionally, Dnipro, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv saw their energy infrastructure hit, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. A health facility and a school were also damaged during the attacks. Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia also suffered losses.
Ukrainian authorities told OCHA that a warehouse storing humanitarian aid was damaged in the Mykolaiv region.
Half-funded appeal for help
In the Sumy region, around 40 people have been evacuated to safer areas over the past three days, OCHA said. Meanwhile, in the Donetsk region, almost 330 civilians, including 50 children, were evacuated.
In total, since June, nearly 150,000 people have been evacuated from front-line areas, including more than 16,500 children and more than 5,000 people with reduced mobility.
Aid workers have managed to reach more than 700,000 people near the front lines this year. However, funding gaps persist, leaving more than a million people without clean water and limiting access to protection and gender-based violence services.
$2.6 billion this year call for Ukraine it is only half financeat nearly $1.4 billion.
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
