The war caused the largest movement of refugees since World War II.
Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said the UN plans to raise more than $ 2 billion to help Ukrainian refugees and those in need at home, and hopes to evacuate more people from Russian-occupied Mariupol. >
At a donors' conference to help Ukraine on Thursday, May 5, Griffiths announced a joint operation with the International Committee of the Red Cross to evacuate people from Mariupol.
“Today, now, the convoy is heading to Azovstal, where it should be tomorrow morning. We hope to pick up those who remained in this hell and bring them to safety,” Griffiths said.
He also stressed solidarity with Ukraine and stressed the need to do everything possible to reduce human suffering.
“We have adopted an emergency request to (accumulate) $ 2.25 billion and hope to raise it,” the UN spokesman said.
Griffiths noted that the war caused the largest movement of refugees since World War II on a scale never seen before in Europe.
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We will remind, on May 3 the Russian occupiers began assault of metallurgical Azovstal plant in Mariupol. Civilians and Ukrainian defenders still remain on its territory. On May 4, Russians broke into the plant.
Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko said that more than 100,000 people remain in the occupied city. According to preliminary data, there were about a thousand Mariupol civilians in the Azovstal bomb shelters, including about 60 children . There are also several hundred wounded Ukrainian servicemen.
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