ReliefWeb

Highlights

• After a year of conflict, internal displacement continues to increase in Ukraine, with 1,228,090 people having fled the eastern part of the country, of whom 154,635 are children (Source: Ministry of Social Policy).

• IDPs and other conflict-affected people in the east of the country continue to face hardship and a lack of access to social services. The general humanitarian situation remains deeply worrying.

• UNICEF procured 72.8 tons of chlorine for five filter stations in the most affected government controlled areas of Donetsk region to cover the needs of 400,000 people.

• To date, UNICEF has distributed education kits to 7,200 children and early child development kits to 12,780 children in Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv regions.

• Since January, approximately 19,000 children have received psychosocial support or visited child-friendly spaces in Kharkіv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, and Luhansk.