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UN rights chief warns of 'serious deterioration' in Ukraine if strikes continue

A woman measures size of a broken hospital window following recent shelling in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, December 15, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on Thursday that further strikes on Ukraine's infrastructure could lead to a serious deterioration of the humanitarian situation and spark further displacement.

Russia's attacks on Ukraine's electricity infrastructure have left millions of people without heat, clean water or electricity as temperatures plummet and some 18 million people now rely on humanitarian aid.

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