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War in Ukraine: situation report from WHO Ukraine country office. Issue No.3, 27 April 2022

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Since 24 February, continued deterioration and new parts of the country affected

  • A team of WHO Country office has travelled to Dnipro to prepare ground for setting up a hub closer to the affected population.

  • The Secretary General’s office presented letters to the Permanent Missions of Russia and Ukraine, calls for a four- day humanitarian ceasefire.

  • Nearly US$4.1 billion will be urgently required to make sure the UN and its humanitarian partners can continue delivering humanitarian aid to people across Ukraine and refugees in neighboring countries. An increase of over 140 per cent if compared to what was requested when the Humanitarian Flash Appeal and the Regional Refugee Response Plan were launched on 1 March, a few days after the war began.

  • More than 600,000 additional people were internally displaced in Ukraine in the first 17 days of April according to the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) latest report, pushing the total number of internally displaced since the beginning of the war to over 7.7 million, 17 per cent of the country’s population.

  • The fifth UN-led inter-agency humanitarian convoy reached Chernihiv (Chernihivska oblast, north) on 20 April. The convoy delivered nine trucks of critical relief supplies for more than 13,800 people in Chernihiv and nearby communities, which will be distributed by the Ukrainian Red Cross Society and their local partners.

  • As of 21 April, the UN and its humanitarian partners have reached over 3.4 million people across Ukraine, including over 917 000 in Kharkivska oblast (east), more than 410 000 in Kyivska oblast (north), nearly 350 000 in Lvivska oblast (west) and over 218 000 in Zakarpatska oblast (west).