
The UN flag on the grounds of the Peace Palace in The Hague. File photoUN, Jun 5The official representative of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Saviano Abreu, called incorrect information that the UN troops lost three cars in Kramatorsk. Earlier, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the Donetsk People's Republic reported that Ukrainian troops seized the UN office in Kramatorsk and the UN troops allegedly lost their office and three service cars with diplomatic numbers. «The UN no longer worked at the mentioned facilities and terminated our lease a week ago,» Abreu told RIA Novosti, adding that since last week it is no longer a UN facility. account. So we have not lost a single car. This is incorrect information,» he said. Abreu explained that the facility in Kramatorsk was common for the use of UN structures. Until February 24, most of the UN agencies worked in it, and not just OCHA, he explained. As Abreu pointed out, since February 24, OCHA staff have left this building. He noted that he did not know what was happening at the site in Kramatorsk from the moment the UN troops left it. At the same time, the official representative explained that after leaving Kramatorsk, the main UN hub moved to Dnipro. «We operate from various locations in the country. The main center of our operations in eastern Ukraine is now in Dnipro. Most of our employees work there directly in terms of humanitarian operations. Kramatorsk is no longer the center of operations for us — now it is Dnipro,» Abreu said.
…And the Ukrainization of all of Europe! «Kramatorsk is not a place where we could carry out our work in safety,» he said. In total, about 1,500 UN members are currently working in Ukraine, he said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. Along with the Russian military, units of the DPR and LPR operate in the region.

