Ukraine war: The humanitarian crisis in Kharkiv
Dmytro Chumachenko, Tetyana Chumachenko
Abstract
For more than a month now, Russian troops have been destroying the Russian-speaking city of Kharkiv in Ukraine, where we live, along with 1.5 million other inhabitants. In Kharkiv, the war has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians, large-scale destruction of infrastructure, and also a humanitarian crisis, which is getting worse every day. There are estimates that more than 1,000 buildings have been destroyed, of which more than 700 are multi-storey apartment buildings, which are no longer habitable. Essential infrastructure in the city, such as water supply, electricity, and heating networks, are destroyed. Repair of these systems is carried out, but not always quickly. In some areas of the city, repairs cannot be carried out.