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The United Nations Refugee Agency connected Friday (May 22, 2026) said it had mislaid $1 cardinal worthy of assistance erstwhile a Russian rocket struck 1 of its warehouses successful Dnipro successful eastbound Ukraine earlier this week.
The warehouse, which contained emergency structure materials, including sleeping mats, and hygiene kits was destroyed connected Wednesday (May 20, 2026) and two people were killed, Bernadette Castel-Hollingworth, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) Representative successful Kyiv, said via video nexus from Poland.
The supplies were destined to beryllium distributed to displaced and war-affected radical successful frontline areas successful Ukraine, and deprive radical of captious assistance astatine a clip of significant request arsenic forced displacement and evacuations proceed from frontline regions, according to UNHCR.
“It is important for us, due to the fact that it is the archetypal clip that a UNHCR installation is being targeted oregon attacked,” Mr. Castel-Hollingworth said. UNHCR said it was portion of a broader inclination of attacks connected humanitarian convoys.
Last week, 2 intelligibly marked UN convoys with humanitarian workers were deed by drones: 1 truck was delivering assistance successful the Dnipropetrovsk region, portion a convoy connected the mode to Ostriv successful the Kherson portion was besides targeted, UNHCR said.
