Guerra in Ucraina: regioni preparano piani per accogliere i profughi

On 27 February 2022, people cross the border from Ukraine into Poland. The escalating conflict in Ukraine poses an immediate and growing threat to the lives and well-being of the country’s 7.5 million children. The fighting is moving closer to the civilian population. Hundreds of homes have been damaged or destroyed. Damage to civilian infrastructure has left hundreds of thousands of people without safe water, electricity or water. For now, the priority is safety and meeting urgent needs. But armed conflicts on this scale can only result in child deaths. Like all conflicts, this will quickly descend into a children’s crisis. Hundreds of thousands of people have already fled their homes – with many crossing into neighboring countries, underlining the regional nature of this growing crisis. Families on the move in and outside of Ukraine need urgent support. Despite the growing operational and security challenges in Ukraine, UNICEF remains committed to staying on the ground. UNICEF has 140 staff working across five offices on both sides of the contact line, including Kramatorsk, Mariupol, Luhansk and Donetsk and now Lviv. UNICEF is working around the clock preparing to scale-up operations when the easing of access and security limitations permit humanitarian operations to be rolled out in the hardest-hit areas. In addition, the humanitarian community is quickly mobilizing emergency financing to facilitate an effective, wide-scale humanitarian response in Ukraine and neighboring countries. UNICEF calls for an immediate cease-fire and reminds all parties of their international obligations to protect children from harm and ensure that humanitarian actors can safely and quickly reach children in need.