Europe

“We are concentrating on the generators”: as winter approaches in Ukraine, concern in the European headquarters for humanitarian aid

The European Union’s Emergency Response Coordination Center in Brussels has been providing shelter, food, vehicles or medical aid to Ukrainians since February. An employee of the Emergency Response Coordination Center (ERCC) in Brussels, January 29, 2020 (AFP) In the crisis room under the wall of giant screens are displayed maps, statistics and six clocks which […]

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“It will take decades to clear everything”: in Ukraine, painstaking work to neutralize the explosives that litter the liberated territories

An area equivalent to a third of France is polluted by the deadly traps represented by mines and other remnants of the fighting. The marking of risk areas and information campaigns are a short-term priority.Soldiers from the demining unit inspect fields near the town of Snihurivka, in the Mykolaiv region (Ukraine), on November 12, 2022. […]

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Ukraine: what we know about the acts of torture reported in Kherson and described as a “phenomenon” of “horrible” scale

Since the liberation of this large city in the south of the country, testimonies have multiplied, after eight months of occupation by Russian forces. A police station in which Russian soldiers allegedly tortured Ukrainian prisoners, according to testimonies from residents of Kherson collected after the departure of the occupying army, on November 16, 2022. (ANADOLU […]

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