Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv), taking into account the current military-political situation, extends the suspension of regular and charter flights from/to Ukraine until 23:59 May 31, 2022 Kyiv time, the carrier said in a press release on Tuesday.
Given the difficult situation under martial law, the air carrier draws attention to the possibility of forced delays and feedback complications on the service channels of communication with passengers and counts on understanding.
UIA emphasizes that it stays in touch and will continue to stay in touch with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine.
All up-to-date information on the future status of flights will, if possible, be provided on the UIA official website.
Currently, passengers of canceled flights can take advantage of the following opportunities (taking into account the technical nuances in the conditions of martial law in Ukraine(sad) tickets reissue of flights that were canceled from February 24 to new dates after the stabilization of the situation; and cancellation of the booking so that the ticket remains active for reissuance to new dates, which can be specified later, during the validity of the ticket (one year from the date of purchase).
Passengers have the opportunity to receive a promo code for the full amount of the ticket, as well as to have a refund of the ticket price, but it is not possible to specify the exact terms of the refund. Passengers who applied for a promo code in March-April 2020 will automatically have their promo code extended for another year after April 15 (respectively, until March-April 2023).
Passengers who would like to receive a refund of the cost of the promo code will be given this opportunity. However, it is not possible to specify the exact refund dates, the airline said.
Almost 500,000 places have been organized in the western regions of Ukraine to accommodate refugees from other regions, 150,000 places are still free, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal said.
According to him, military administrations have already allocated ten land plots for the construction of temporary housing.
“With the help of the government, local authorities and with the support of our international partners, we will build temporary camps from modular houses. It will be possible to live in them for a year or two, during the hostilities and for the period of restoration of lost housing,” he said in an interview with Interfax -Ukraine.
The Prime Minister noted that 3.7 million people have already left the territory of Ukraine, but 400,000 of them have returned.
“Some are returning to defend Ukraine. Others saw that the Armed Forces stopped the aggressor, there was a certain stabilization of the front. That is, the returning process has begun. The government, in turn, began to develop a program aimed at making it easier for people to return home. People need housing, funds, work,” Shmyhal said.
He recalled that internally displaced persons can receive monthly assistance for living in the amount of UAH 2,000, while persons with disabilities and children can get UAH 3,000. In addition, employers receive UAH 6,500 for working employees.
In addition, persons who host refugees free of charge receive compensation for utilities under the Pryhystok program.
Losses among civilians since February 24, 2022, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, until 24:00 on March 27, 2022, amounted to 2,975 civilians (2,909 in the report a day earlier), including 1,151 dead (1,119), the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reported on Monday.
“OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, as the receipt of information from some locations where intense hostilities have been going on has been delayed and many reports are still pending corroboration,” the document says.
This concerns, for example, Mariupol and Volnovakha (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), Popasna and Rubizhne (Luhansk region), and Trostianets (Sumy region), where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties. These figures are being further corroborated and are not included in the above statistics.
“Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes,” the report said.
According to confirmed UN data, 229 men, 171 women, 34 boys and 15 girls died, while the sex of 54 children and 648 adults has not yet been determined.
Among the 1,824 injured, there were 34 girls and 26 boys, as well as 73 children, whose sex has not yet been determined.
Compared to the previous day, four children were killed and seven were injured, according to the UN.
OHCHR points out that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight on March 28, there are 317 (301) deaths and 700 (694) injured in the territory controlled by the government, and 60 (59) deaths and 228 (227) injured in the territory controlled by the self-proclaimed “republics.”
In other regions of Ukraine under government control (in Kyiv, as well as in Zhytomyr, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 774 (759) dead and 896 (869) wounded .
The report also states that, according to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office, as of 08:00 on March 28, some 143 (139) children were killed and 216 (205) injured.
The increase in indicators in this report compared to the figures in the previous report should not be attributed only to new cases that occurred on March 27, since OHCHR also verified a number of cases that occurred in previous days during the day, the document specifies.
A meeting of the heads of delegations is taking place in Istanbul as part of the Ukrainian-Russian negotiations.
“Round of heads of delegations. David Arakhamia and Vladimir Medinsky. On the fundamental provisions of the negotiation process. Delegations are working in parallel on the entire spectrum of contentious issues,” Mykhailo Podoliak, the adviser to the head of the President’s Office of Ukraine, wrote on Twitter.
It was previously planned that the negotiations would last until March 30.
The United Nations (UN) may initiate the conclusion of agreements on a humanitarian truce between Ukraine and Russia, the UN press service reports.
“Mr. Guterres said that the UN Humanitarian Affairs chief, Martin Griffiths, would ‘immediately explore’ an agreement with Russia and Ukraine for the ceasefire,” according to a press release published on Monday.
Speaking to reporters on the same day, Guterres said that the war in Ukraine had led to “the war has led to the senseless loss of thousands of lives; the displacement of ten million people, mainly women and children; the systematic destruction of essential infrastructure; and skyrocketing food and energy prices worldwide. This must stop,” the Secretary General said.
Guterres hopes that the truce will ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid, as well as the safety of civilians.
“It [the truce] will save lives, prevent suffering, and protect civilians,” the Secretary General said.
The UN chief made it clear that any solution “to this humanitarian tragedy is not humanitarian. It is political.”
“I am therefore appealing for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, to allow for progress in serious political negotiations, [aimed] at reaching a peace agreement based on the principles of the United Nations Charter,” the Secretary General said.
KYIV. March 29 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) has made the procedure for delivering humanitarian aid in passenger trains more clear, 50 wagons in 32 trains have been allocated for this.
As UZ reported on its Facebook page, on certain routes these wagons will be specially meant for the delivery of humanitarian cargo.
“This will make it possible to clearly separate the humanitarian mission of Ukrzaliznytsia from our direct work: the transportation of passengers and cargo, and will also provide additional security for humanitarian cargo,” the message says.
Since the beginning of the war, Ukrzaliznytsia has transported more than 7,800 tonnes of humanitarian cargo in passenger cars and sent 1,670 cargo cars with humanitarian aid throughout the country. Most of all – to Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia and Odesa.
