Today's top news: Ukraine
Aid workers deliver emergency assistance to people impacted by a deadly attack in KryvyiRih, the Dnipropetrovsk Region, Ukraine on 8 September 2023. OCHA/Oleksii Holenkov
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The UN and partners have reached more than 8.3 million people in Ukraine as of the end of August. Twenty per cent of those assisted were children and 60 per cent women and girls.
We and our partners have also launched a Winter Response Plan to help more than 1.3 million people through March 2024. This appeal will require $268 million in funding.
Distributions of essential items are already underway, including heaters, blankets, winter clothes and shelter repair kits.
There are 470 humanitarian organizations – more than half of them national NGOs – active in the response in Ukraine, as of late August. That’s up from 415 in July.