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KEY RESPONSE FIGURES
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Nearly 1.6 million people reached with assistance to date
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450,078 people received targed protection assistance and information at border points, transit, and reception centres and through hotlines.
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UNHCR has disbursed cash assistance to 436,00 individuals to support their basic needs.
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647,511 people received essential items, clothes, shelter materials and food assistance
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128,335 people have received assistance through 160 humanitarian convoys delivered to hard-hit areas
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85,207 sleeping places created/impoved in a total of 278 reception & collective centres
The situation in Ukraine remains volatile and extremely dangerous as the war entered its sixth month. Tremendous challenges are faced by civilians in areas that have experienced a dramatic increase in airstrikes and shelling over the last few days, particularly in the south of the country.
Following an earlier slight decrease in the total number of internally displaced persons in Ukraine, IOM estimates the number has once again grown to 6,645,000 IDPs in the country, largely fueled by new displacements in the East, South, and North of Ukraine.
UNHCR continues to deliver assistance and services as close as possible to the places where people are sheltering or have been displaced. UNHCR’s response has now reached nearly 1.6 million people with protection services, cash assistance and essential items to address immediate needs, and shelter support to provisionally repair damaged homes to protect people from the elements and improve conditions in reception and collective centres.
Responding to winterization needs in Ukraine is a key priority of the humanitarian response, helping people to cope with the onset of freezing temperatures. UNHCR will scale-up programmes that enable IDPs, conflict-affected persons and returnees to access safe, warm and dignified accommodation during the winter months.
While providing immediate relief to those fleeing, UNHCR is working closely with local and national actors to lay the groundwork for durable solutions and recovery and to ensure that our response is effectively reinforcing and complementing national systems. Enabling local sustainability will remain at the core of UNHCR’s way of working.