Residents carry their belongings near buildings destroyed in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict, in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 10, 2022.more than two years ago. That stark figure was presented to the United Nations Security Council in a briefing focused on the dire humanitarian and human rights situation in the war-torn country, including eastern regions illegally annexed by Russia.
The Council heard that Ukraine was currently enduring some of the worst attacks since the start of the war. “Attacks on civilians and on civilian infrastructure are prohibited under international law. They must cease immediately, and we continue to condemn them, where they occur. The intensifying attacks come with a heavy toll on Ukraine’s critical civilian infrastructure. Since March, the large-scale coordinated attacks on critical infrastructure destroyed or damaged more than two dozen energy facilities throughout the country, including the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant.