UN rights chief moves Kyiv meeting underground as sirens sound

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The UN rights chief said Monday he had met with activists in an underground shelter in Kyiv as missiles rained down, warning against allowing the situation to become 'a new normal.'

This handout photograph shows High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk speaking with human rights defenders in an underground shelter during an airstrike alert in Kyiv on December 5, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Anthony Headley/ OHCHR/ AFP

He had scheduled to meet with a number of human rights defenders in Kyiv on Monday, but then air sirens sounded and they had to move into an underground shelter. "And as we were having this discussion here in this shelter there was a wave of missile attacks against Ukraine, including some of them ending up in the proximity of Kyiv," he said.

Russia's strikes have destroyed close to half of the Ukrainian energy system and left millions in the cold and dark at the onset of winter.

 

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