On April 5, 2022, an ICRC team visited Bucha. They saw devastating scenes of destruction. They saw people in desperate need of basics for survival. They saw streets littered with unexploded ordnances.
An ICRC team has led a convoy of buses and private cars carrying more than 1,000 people to Zaporizhzhia. The civilians transported in the humanitarian convoy had fled Mariupol on their own.
Irpin, once a commuter city in the Kyiv region, is now smoke and rubble with only the most vulnerable people still living there.
An ICRC team is in Zaporizhzhia with pre-positioned relief items and medical supplies to be ready to facilitate the safe passage of civilians out of Mariupol and bring aid into the city.
As humanitarian needs in Ukraine increase by the hour, the ability of the ICRC to deliver much-needed humanitarian assistance is today being jeopardised by a surge of misinformation and disinformation.
Sixty tons of food and relief items arrived in the city of Kharkiv on Saturday 26 March as the ICRC scales up its response to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, amidst skyrocketing needs.
Dnipro Railway Station is a hub for thousands of internally displaced people from all over Ukraine.
During a five-day visit to Ukraine, the President of the ICRC, Peter Maurer, traveled to the country to see the challenges facing civilians affected by the conflict.
A convoy of 11 trucks carrying 200 tons of aid from the International Committee of the Red Cross, the German Red Cross and other partners of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has reached Ukraine.
Today the ICRC with the Ukrainian Red Cross Society is helping to facilitate the safe passage of thousands civilians out of the city of Sumy in an ongoing operation.