Red Cross on Thursday, urged all sides in the Ukraine conflict to respect international humanitarian law, protect civilians and essential services such as water and power supplies.
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC President Peter Maurer said in a tweet: “@ICRC teams are responding to urgent humanitarian needs and they must be able to continue their life-saving work.”
The Geneva-based agency, which had some 600 aid workers across Ukraine, including 400 in the east, had been helping provide water in the Donetsk region.
This was after two water pumping stations were damaged by weekend shelling, disrupting water supplies to 1 million people.
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