UN refugee official urges Security Council to ‘end senseless war’

Kelly Clements, the United Nations’ Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, has asked Security Council members to assist in ending Russia’s onslaught and ending Ukraine-Russia war.

While the UN has assisted approximately 2.5 million people in Ukraine to date, including those who have been displaced from other regions of the nation after the war broke out, Clements stated that “no pile of blankets, no sum of cash, no amount of medicine, is going to halt the death and destruction” in Ukraine.

This evening I briefed the UN Security Council on Ukraine from Hungary.

During my visit to the region, I have seen the impacts of war, the courage of those fleeing, and the compassion of many supporting them.

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What we now need to see is action from the #UNSC to bring peace back. pic.twitter.com/SkEOJHroMx

— Kelly T. Clements (@KellyTClements) April 19, 2022