(ANSA - KIEV, 17 JUN - The humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine is "extremely alarming" and continues to deteriorate.
This was stated by the UN. "Almost four months after the start of the war, the humanitarian situation throughout Ukraine, in particular in eastern Donbass, it is extremely alarming and continues to deteriorate rapidly, "Ocha, the United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Office, said in a statement.
According to the UN, the situation is "particularly worrying" in and around Severodonetsk, the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the Lugansk region, almost entirely under Russian control.
"Access to drinking water, food and electricity is reduced in that area", underlines the Ocha, due "to fighting that continues to intensify" and that "weigh heavily on the civilian population".
Ocha deplores that "the two belligerents, at this stage, have not yet reached an agreement to facilitate the evacuation of civilians or to allow access to humanitarian aid" in Severodonetsk and in the nearby city of Lysychansk, which has been under constant bombardment for several days.
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