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06/29United Nations: HRMMU head Danielle Bell said the mission's findings highlighted deeply worrying trends, including energy attacks, rising civilian casualties and torture of prisoners, and that people would face the same challenges next winter, even more so if attacks resumed.

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04/16United Nations: UN Humanitarian Coordinator Matthias Schmale condemned the overnight Russian attack on Dnipro, Kyiv and Odesa, saying the world should not be forced to count the civilian toll every day and that the cycle of violence must stop.

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03/20United Nations: UN Humanitarian Coordinator a.i. Richard Ragan condemned a first-person-view drone strike on an evacuation van of the Ukrainian NGO Proliska in Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka, Donetsk Oblast, which killed two women and injured two evacuees, citing Russian forces' increasing and illegal use of such drones against civilians and aid workers.

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01/20United Nations: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said he was outraged by repeated large-scale Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy system, called them cruel and a clear breach of the rules of war, and urged Russian authorities to stop them immediately.

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11/19United Nations: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said he was particularly appalled by the high number of civilian casualties in Ternopil, said civilians and civilian infrastructure are protected under the laws of war, and called on Russia to stop its attack and withdraw its forces from Ukraine.

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07/09United Nations: HRMMU head Danielle Bell said analysis of video and an on-site assessment showed a high likelihood that Okhmatdyt hospital suffered a direct hit, pointing to a Kh-101 missile, while saying the mission could not be 100 percent certain.

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07/17United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he deeply regretted Russia's decision, that the Black Sea Initiative had moved over 32 million tonnes of food from Ukrainian ports and helped cut food prices by over 23 percent since March 2022, and that he had sent President Putin a new proposal that went unheeded.

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09/29United Nations: Secretary-General Guterres said any annexation of a state's territory by another state through threat or use of force violated the UN Charter, and that annexing the four regions would have no legal value.

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08/25United Nations: The International Maritime Organization said it had confirmed 68 incidents in the Gulf and nearby waters in six months of war, one every 2.6 days, with at least 20 seafarers or port workers killed, 35 wounded and one missing. About half involved tankers; UKMTO classifies 47 as attacks.

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08/17United Nations: UN human rights chief Volker Turk warned of a rising civilian toll from escalating hostilities in Yemen and called on all parties to halt any action that risks returning the country to full-scale war.

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06/25United Nations: IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said 'the safety of the seafarers remains paramount' and that 'the evacuation plan will be paused until further clarity is obtained'.

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05/29United Nations: IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said Kazakhstan had signalled willingness to store Iran's near-weapons-grade enriched uranium, describing its uranium bank as a possible site acceptable to both sides, according to the Financial Times.

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