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UN envoy: ‘Great mistake’ to block aid in east Ukraine


GENEVA (AP) — Efforts by Russia-backed separatist rebels to block “desperately needed” humanitarian aid from reaching people in conflict-ridden eastern Ukraine could amount to crimes against humanity, a top U.N. human rights official said Tuesday.

Ivan Simonovic, the assistant U.N. secretary-general for human rights, criticized as a “great mistake” the move by rebels who control the eastern city of Luhansk to kick out U.N. and humanitarian aid agencies — except for the international Red Cross, which has been allowed to continue operations.

Russia-backed separatists have been fighting government troops in eastern Ukraine since April 2014, and at least 8,000 people have been …read more

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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