In addition to this rapid resource mobilization, the UN is on the ground delivering lifesaving humanitarian assistance and support to the people of Ukraine — from help by the UN Refugee Agency for those displaced by the conflict to support by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for Ukraine’s 7.5 million children to the World Food Programme’s emergency food assistance and ongoing efforts by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to protect the health and safety of girls and women.

Tragically, we know that innocent civilians always pay the highest price when nations go to war. The people of Ukraine have already suffered and endured so much in the past week — and for those living in eastern Ukraine, for the past eight years. But as the Secretary-General has said, echoing the UN Charter: “It’s not too late to save this generation from the scourge of war.”