ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS IN UKRAINE MUST STOP

Last night, during an attack from the Russian Armed Forces, a multi-storey residential building was hit in Kharkiv. Reports of dozens of casualties include the killing of two children, despite the rescuers' efforts to save them. 

Just yesterday, I briefed the United Nations Member States on the critical situation in Ukraine and urged them to support humanitarian organizations responding to the people suffering the consequences of relentless attacks in the country. 

In the last 24 hours alone, scores of civilians have been killed and injured across the country — in the Kharkiv, Kherson, Donetsk, Sumy and Dnipro regions.

International humanitarian law is clear: civilians and civilian infrastructure are protected. This senseless violence must end.