Chisinau, Moldova – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government of the Republic of Moldova, today announced that cash will soon be provided to both refugees fleeing Ukraine and families hosting them in Moldova. It follows an initial small scale cash distribution f...

This is a summary of what was said by Karolina Lindholm Billing, UNHCR’s Representative to Ukraine – to whom quoted text may be attributed – speaking from Lviv to today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Brussels, 22 March 2022 – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) welcome the pledges by European Union (EU) Member States and other European States to transfer refugees from Moldova to their territory under the auspices of the EU Solidarity Platform.

As conflict deepens suffering inside Ukraine, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is scaling up cross-border aid from Poland with the support of partners like NEEKA. With temperatures recently plummeting on the Poland-Ukraine border, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, dispatched a consignment of thermal bla...

WARSAW – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today acknowledged the enormous support of the Polish authorities and civil society for those who have been forced to flee Ukraine, after the number of arrivals passed the two million mark within three weeks.

‘These refugees have lost almost everything. We need to help them. Even if that means we’ll have to learn to live with less,’ says mayor of Medyka, a primary crossing point for refugees. Marek Iwasieczko has been averaging just four hours sleep a night since the bombs started falling on Ukraine. ...

As transfers are arranged to ease the pressure on Moldova of hundreds of thousands fleeing conflict, UNHCR staff are on hand to help refugees facing an uncertain future. <br> Under leaden skies at the remote Palanca border crossing in southeastern Moldova, groups of refugees from Ukraine brave the...

As humanitarian needs continue to rise, UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls on the private sector for continued support.

With nearly 2 million people forcibly displaced within Ukraine, UNHCR and its partners are responding to the dire humanitarian needs with shelter and other forms of aid. <br> Until recently, students filled the halls and rooms of this dormitory in Mukachevo State University in western Ukraine’s Z...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Matthew Saltmarsh – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. <br> <br> UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has significantly stepped up its assistance in Ukraine and the neighbouring cou...