The Latest Breaking News from ICRC

Ukraine-Russia news from March 6: Missile strikes have destroyed the international airport in Vinnytsia.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said it understood that evacuations of civilians from Mariupol and Volnovakha in Ukraine would not start on Saturday because of the conflict following Russia's invasion.

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross told Reuters on Tuesday that he was "cautiously positive" the ICRC would gain access to Ukrainian and Russian prisoners held in the context of the conflict.

Red Cross agencies appealed on Tuesday for 250 million Swiss francs ($273 million) to provide food, water and shelter to millions of people in Ukraine where the humanitarian situation is "deteriorating rapidly" and to those who have fled abroad.

This new phase of the fighting in Ukraine has sent an ominous chill down my spine. The intensification and spread of the conflict risk a scale of death and destruction that are frightening to contemplate, given the immense military capacities involved.

Civilians and critical infrastructure such as water and power systems in Ukraine must be protected from attacks in line with the rules of war, United Nations and Red Cross officials said on Thursday as aid agencies struggled to assess damage from Russia's attack.

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Thursday urged all sides in the Ukraine conflict to respect international humanitarian law, protect civilians and essential services such as water and power supplies.

Afghanistan, Lebanon, Africa, Libya – this was Australian nurse Bernadette 'Detta' Gleeson's turf with the Red Cross. The world is poorer for her passing.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has invited the International Committee of the Red Cross and a U.N. agency to investigate allegations by the Iran-aligned Houthi group that coalition forces carried out a fatal attack on a detention centre last month, state media reported on Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of people in eastern Ukraine are living in dire conditions, with poor access to basic services and under constant threat from shelling and landmines, the Red Cross said on Wednesday, amid escalating tensions between Kyiv and Moscow.

The Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen has said that media reports about it targeting a detention center in Yemen’s Saada province are false. "The Coalition will inform the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Yemen (OCHA) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the…