The conflict has had a significant and detrimental impact on human welfare, and on social and economic conditions generally. Some 13,000 people have been killed, a quarter of them civilians, and as many as 30,000 wounded in the war in eastern Ukraine since it broke out in April 2014, the United Nations says. Is this a new Holdomor from Russia ?
The estimated toll includes more than 3,300 civilian deaths, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a document dated February 25 and provided to RFE/RL the same day.
Calls upon all States, international organizations and specialized agencies not to recognize any alteration of the status of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol on the basis of the above-mentioned referendum and to refrain from any action or dealing that might be interpreted as recognizing any such altered status.” In the spring of 2014, conflict erupted in the eastern oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk—known as the Donbas—where pro-Russian separatists took control over parts of the two oblasts. Despite the existence of a peace agreement (the Minsk Protocol of September 2014) and the renewal of its cease-fire provisions in February 2015, the likely outcome of this conflict remains uncertain.
This Recovery and Peacebuilding Assessment (RPA) report for Eastern Ukraine is a collaborative product authored jointly by staff of the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN), and the World Bank Group (WBG). Acknowledging the institutions’ different mandates and areas of expertise, the findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in the RPA do not necessarily constitute the views or formal recommendations of the EU, UN, or WBG on all issues, nor do they reflect the views of the governing bodies of these institutions or their member states. It is also recognized that due to different mandates not all activities set forth or proposed in the report will be shared by or engaged in by all the collaborating institutions, and it is further understood that each institution will carry out or be engaged with any such activities in accordance with its mandate, and operational policies and procedures.
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