KYIV. Nov 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – To provide assistance to civilians throughout Ukraine, it is necessary to allocate about $435 million by March 2024, according to the website of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
“The UN and partners are appealing for some $435 million to deliver winter assistance to more than 1.7 million people across Ukraine through March 2024,” the report notes.
This year alone, the UN and partners have delivered 14 convoys to front-line communities in Zaporizhia region, providing essential support to more than 30,000 people living near the southern front. Since the beginning of the year, 96 humanitarian convoys have reached front-line areas.
In particular, as reported on November 3, an inter-agency humanitarian convoy delivered vital supplies to the 1,600 people who remain in the front-line town of Orikhiv, in Zaporizhia region. The aid included medicine, household items, hygiene kits, blankets, mattresses, solar lamps and sleeping bags.