US EditionChildren in Ukraine risk hypothermia after Russian attacks, aid groups say
Millions of families face prolonged outages amid repeated strikes, with UNICEF warning of heightened hypothermia risks and emergency generator stocks depleting rapidly.
- On Jan 16 in Geneva, United Nations children's agency UNICEF said children across Ukraine risk hypothermia as freezing temperatures follow attacks on energy infrastructure, facing a race against time to restore water and heating services.
- Repeated missile and drone strikes have left many homes without electricity and heating in Zaporizhzhia oblast and Kharkiv oblast, causing prolonged outages across Kyiv and frontline regions.
- In Kyiv, temperatures plunged to-15°C on Friday; UNICEF's Munir Mammadzade explained, `There, they can warm up, get hot food, charge devices and speak with a psychologist- or simply sit in the warmth.`
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Jan 14 he would declare a state of emergency in the energy sector, while Unicef is supplying high-capacity generators to hospitals and schools and calling for more funding.
- With stockpiles depleted and funding thin, the IFRC funding appeal is only 13 per cent covered, leaving a 262 million Swiss francs gap as UNICEF noted an 11 per cent rise in child casualties.
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Ukrainian children ‘at risk of freezing’ as energy system is battered by Russian drone and missile strikes
Children across Ukraine risk hypothermia in freezing temperatures as emergency stocks of power generators run low following Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, international aid agencies said yesterday.
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Children in Ukraine risk hypothermia after Russian attacks, aid groups say
International aid agencies say children across Ukraine risk hypothermia in freezing temperatures as emergency stocks of power generators run low following Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.
At temperatures of up to minus 18 degrees, people often have to do without electricity and heating. In the Ukrainian capital, the situation is particularly bad.
The lack of resources forced Unicef to "abandon" several parts of Ukraine in its plan to prepare for this winter.
Children endure freezing winter as strikes hit homes and utilities across Ukraine, UNICEF says
Image/UNICEF. UNICEF said Ukraine’s children are facing the war’s harshest winter, with attacks and freezing temperatures leaving millions without heat, power and water.The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said Ukraine’s children are enduring the harshest winter of the war, as relentless attacks and freezing temperatures deepen the humanitarian crisis. In a statement on Friday, UNICEF said millions of families have gone days without heati…
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