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The WHO Country Office (CO) in Ukraine has delivered medicines and medical supplies to Hulyaipole of the Zaporizhzhya region in Ukraine as part of a United Nations (UN) multiagency convoy to deliver essential goods to the region. Financial support was provided by EU Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid, USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and the German Embassy in Kyiv.
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The WHO CO handed over 26 ambulances to the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Ukraine to meet the urgent needs of patients affected by the war. The ©WHO donation included six cars for transporting patients and 20 ambulances equipped with oxygen tanks, defibrillators, ventilators and other medical equipment for transporting severely injured patients to health-care facilities. The delivery was made possible with funding support from the European Union.
SITUATION UPDATE
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Repair crews worked round the clock to restore power systems in Odesa following a fire that left hundreds of thousands of residents without electricity. The mass blackout — though attributable to a fire — was one of many that have hit Ukraine’s grid since Russian forces focused in October on attacking the energy infrastructure as part of their invasion of Ukraine.
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned in a speech to the UN General Assembly that further escalation in the war in Ukraine could mean that the world is heading towards a wider war as the prospects for peace keep diminishing and the likelihood of escalation and bloodshed keeps growing.
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The head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration Maksym Marchenko stated that 360 000 residents are still without electricity, which is almost half of the population of Odesa. Power is restored only for a few hours per day, according to the outage schedule. The Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Halushchenko stated that 82 diesel generators have been delivered to the city so far.