About 677,000 Ukrainian citizens are refugees in neighboring countries as a result of Russian attacks.
The estimate was given this Tuesday (1st) by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi.
According to Grandi, in the last 24 hours alone, 150,000 people have left the country.
UN agencies on Tuesday launched an emergency appeal to respond to growing humanitarian needs following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, asking for $1.7 billion to help people who have fled the country and those still inside.
“The crisis got really ugly really fast,” Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Assistance Coordinator, told reporters at a press conference in Geneva.
He asked for compassion to match the scale of the crisis.
The war this Tuesday (1st)
At least six people were injured, including a child, in an explosion in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said in a Telegram post on Tuesday.
The blast hit a government building, according to videos of the incident posted by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and government officials. The clips were also published on Tuesday, local time, and were verified by CNN.
Russia is waging war in violation of international humanitarian law. Kills civilians, destroys civilian infrastructure. Russiaʼs main target is large cities that are now fired at by its missiles.
📍Kharkiv, Administration building pic.twitter.com/BJgyNnDp1h
— MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 (@MFA_Ukraine) March 1, 2022
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kubela said “Russian missile attacks” caused the explosion. He then reinforced the call for other countries to “isolate Russia completely”.
The search for possible victims is still ongoing, according to the government.
On Monday, at least nine civilians were killed by Russian rocket attacks in Kharkiv, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. According to him, three children died.
“The missiles hit residential buildings, killing and injuring peaceful civilians. Kharkiv hasn’t seen this much damage in a long time. And that’s horrible,” he said. Terekhov said four people left the shelter to get water and were killed.
A family of two adults and three children were burned alive in their car, he said. Another 37 people were injured. The administration of the city of Kharkiv gave the same figures.
Source: CNN Brasil
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