The war in Ukraine has already generated three million refugees in nineteen days, according to the International Organization for Migration, with the particularity that every second a Ukrainian child becomes a refugee, in the words of Unicef.
“We have just received the latest figures and we can confirm that the three million refugee mark has been passed”, the spokesman for the migration agency (IOM) in Geneva, Paul Dillon, told the press.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has indicated that close to Ninety percent of the refugees are women and children.
In addition, every second a child becomes a refugee because of the war in Ukraine, Unicef spokesman James Elder explained on Tuesday.
Many minors have left Ukraine without relatives, so Elder warned of the fear that criminal organizations of human trafficking take advantage of this critical situation and the vulnerability of children.
Evacuation from Sumy
An evacuation operation of civilians from the city of Sumy, in northeastern Ukraine, is being carried out on Tuesday in two convoys, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Ewan Watson, said today.
“We are facilitating the safe exit from Sumy in a joint operation with the Ukrainian Red Cross,” he told reporters.
“We hope that the operation will not be stopped by the resumption of hostilities, as has happened in Mariupol,” Watson added.
Curfew in Kyiv
The city of kyiv, besieged for several days by Russian troops, today again imposes a curfew that will end on the 17th.
The mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko, said on his Telegram channel that a difficult and dangerous moment is being experienced in the capital, referring to the latest Russian bombardments that have affected residential neighborhoods in the city and in which they have died. dozens of people.
Circulation in the city without special passes is prohibited. You can only go out to get to the accommodation,” says the mayor of the Ukrainian capital.
In addition, today it was learned that the number of deaths in the Russian attack that suffered a television tower in northern Ukraine on Monday rises to 19, while the wounded are 9, according to Ukrainian agencies reported today.
Russians control Kherson
For its part, the Russian Army assures that it has extended its control over the entire province of Kherson, in southern Ukraine.
“The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation took control of the entire territory of Kherson province,” defense spokesman General Igor Konashenkov said on Tuesday.
Making a preliminary assessment of the military operation on Ukraine launched on February 24, the spokesman said that “156 unmanned aerial devices, 1,306 battle and armored vehicles, 127 multiple rocket launchers, 471 artillery and mortar systems, as well as like 4 military vehicles”.
136 military targets in Ukraine were destroyed by air strikes, including seven command posts and communication centers, four anti-aircraft missile systems, four ammunition depots, several radars and 72 clusters of war equipment, according to the Defense Ministry.
sanctions
The European Union adopted on Tuesday the fourth package of sectoral and individual sanctions for the Russian military aggression against Ukraine, aimed at dealing another blow to the economic and logistical base of the Kremlin’s war machine.
The new package includes business and financial restrictions and blacklists more oligarchs from the community club.
It establishes a total prohibition of any transaction with certain Russian state companies in different sectors and that the European Commission called in another statement “the military-industrial complex of the Kremlin”.
In addition, an EU import ban on steel products is added, amounting to approximately 3.3 billion in lost export earnings for Russia, according to Brussels calculations, which point out that larger import quotas will be distributed to other third countries to make up for.
The restrictions also include a “wide-ranging” ban on new investment in the Russian energy sector, with limited exceptions for civilian nuclear power and the transport of certain energy products back to the EU. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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