The United Arab Emirates announced $5 million in humanitarian assistance to citizens impacted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russian rockets and artillery shells have struck civilian neighborhoods in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, and Kharkiv, it’s second-largest city, while Russian tanks have demolished villages and suburbs in across Eastern Ukraine — forcing hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee. Many have found shelter inside their homeland, where Ukraine’s besieged government desperately tries to feed and house them. Tens of thousands of civilians — mostly women and children as combat-age males are temporarily barred from leaving the country by Ukraine law — have escaped into Poland and other neighboring Western countries. Those refugees represent a growing humanitarian crisis for European democracies and the United Nations is stepping in to help.
