UN: UKRAINE, RUSSIA AND THE WAR

The conflict, which erupted in 2014 at around the same time that Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula, has killed more than 10,000 people and displaced more than 1,5 million… “Civilians continue to pay the highest price” arising from Ukraine’s on-going conflict with separatist rebels in the east, the UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council on Tuesday, a conflict which is still claiming lives. “More than 3,300 civilians have been killed, and up to 9,000 injured since the conflict began in 2014,” Ursula Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, told Council Members, adding that 1.5 million have been internally displaced. In 2019, she said, 3.5 million people will need humanitarian assistance and protection services, “many of whom are elderly, women and children”…

The UN Security Council has held an emergency session on the Ukraine crisis, at Russia's request. (AAP) Source: AAP