The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, published a report on Thursday, December 21, saying that 220,000 children living in eastern Ukraine are at severe risk of serious injury by landmines and other deadly explosives littering the territory, according to Deutsche Welle (DW).
The problem is not a lack of vaccine, as Kyiv's chief immunologist explains, but a fear among parents that it's worse than the disease, according to RFE/RL.
With the recent escalation of hostilities damaging vital water infrastructure in eastern Ukraine, at least 750,000 children are at imminent risk of being cut off from safe drinking water, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday, UN News Centre reported.
More than 200,000 children – or 1 in 4 - in the two regions most severely affected by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine require urgent and sustained psychosocial support to address the trauma of living through more than three years of violence, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on April 7.