"The EU Council adopted today - ahead of the second year since the start of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine - a thirteenth package of restrictive measures against the Putin regime, those responsible for perpetuating its war of unlawful, unprovoked and unjustified aggression and those who significantly support it."
The Council announced this in a note.
Ukrainian President Zelensky meanwhile announces a new counteroffensive: "The defense of Ukraine is the number one task. We will continue with the successes in the Black Sea. I won't go into details, but we are preparing some surprises for Russia. The south is important. The defense of the east, where the Russians have more than 200 thousand soldiers, is very important. Naturally we will prepare a new counteroffensive, new operations. We will not stand still. It depends on many things."
A small group of Ukrainian children who survived the war will speak at a private session of the United Nations Security Council today.
The Guardian reports it.
A Security Council meeting is scheduled for today at the UN Security Council, two years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Among the children who turn to the UN body, a stop on a broader visit to the United States, there are Kira, 14 years old, and Ilya, 11, from the city of Mariupol, conquered by the Russians: the hope is that their personal stories could have an impact on US Republicans at a time when a military aid package for Ukraine is stalled in the House.
Ukraine's Prosecutor General estimates that 528 children have been killed since the invasion began and 2,134 are missing.
Another 19,500 are believed to have been kidnapped and taken to Russia, and some were forcibly re-educated with a "pro-Russian patriotic and military education," according to a US report.
UNICEF reports that over the past two years, children in cities on the front line of fighting in Ukraine have been forced to spend 3,000 to 5,000 hours - or 4 to 7 months - sheltered in basements and railway stations. subway underground while the air raid warnings sounded.
Since the escalation of the war in February 2022, UNICEF explains, the non-stop attacks - with around 3,500 air raid warnings in the Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv regions and almost 6,200 in the Donetsk region - have had "a devastating impact on children's mental health and their ability to learn effectively."
Based on data provided by Unicef, in the last two years 579 Ukrainian children have been killed, another 1,284 have been injured and 3.3 million children are in need of humanitarian assistance.
The psychological consequences of war among children are widespread.
According to survey data, half of young people between the ages of 13 and 15 have difficulty sleeping and 1 in 5 have intrusive thoughts and flashbacks - typical manifestations of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Three-quarters of children and young people aged 14 to 34 recently said they needed emotional or psychosocial support, but less than a third had sought help.
40% of Ukraine's children cannot access continuing education due to a lack of facilities.
In the areas closest to the fighting line, half of school-age children cannot access education.
The latest data shows that the scale of learning gaps found in 2022 compared to 2018 equates to a loss of two years in reading and one year in maths.
Kiev: Russian attack during the night in Odessa and Dnipro, 3 dead
Russian drones and missiles struck the western city of Odessa and Dnipro in eastern Ukraine overnight, causing three deaths and several injuries.
This was reported by the Kiev Defense Forces on Telegram, as reported by Ukrinform.
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