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Ukraine Emergency: UNHCR Delivery Updates - 10 January 2025

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OPERATIONAL CONTEXT & HIGHLIGHTS:

• Largescale aerial attacks continued across Ukraine in December and early January. On Christmas Day, 25 December, a massive attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure caused significant damage, particularly to thermal power plants and boiler stations providing heating to civilian homes. This marked the 13th largescale coordinated attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in 2024, according to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU). Kharkivska oblast was particularly affected, with civilian casualties and significant damage to heating power plants and boiler houses, as well as residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure.

• Civilians in front-line communities face increasingly harsh living conditions due to constant shelling and limited access to essential services. UNHCR and partners continue efforts to deliver assistance to help people stay safe and warm as part of UNHCR’s 2024-2025 winter response plan and the broader inter-agency response.

• The UN HRMMU published its latest report on the human rights situation in Ukraine detailing human rights violations linked to the war, highlighting intensified Russian attacks on populated areas, and deliberate strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. The report also documented a high number of casualties among emergency workers, as well as medical workers, humanitarian workers and volunteers.

• UNHCR provides immediate protection and assistance to people living in war-affected areas while supporting the early recovery and durable solutions for displaced persons, returnees, and war-affected people remaining in their homes.