Good afternoon everyone, welcome to the noon briefing, happy Monday. I have a few notes for you before I take your questions.
He will also hold a number of bilateral meetings with world leaders and other delegates to the World Economic Forum. And on Thursday, he is scheduled to take part in the seventeenth Seminar of his current Special and Personal Representatives and Envoys, and that will take place in a town called Yverdon-les-Bains, that is also in Switzerland.
Turning to Ukraine, our colleagues on the ground are telling us that civilians across the country faced a grim weekend, with air strikes having killed and injured dozens of civilians. Homes, schools and hospitals were also damaged in different parts of the country. A strike hit a residential building in Dnipro on Saturday evening, in one of the deadliest attacks in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion last February. The Secretary-General condemned this attack saying that was another example of a suspected violation of the laws of war.
The Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, Denise Brown, condemned the immense civilian toll of the attack by the Russian Federation Armed Forces and called for an effective investigation of suspected war crimes and appropriate prosecution of suspects. According to our colleagues from the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, at least 40 civilians, including 3 children, were killed.
At least 75 people, 15 of them children, were injured, while in their homes. These numbers are expected to rise even further, as search and rescue operations continue by local authorities right now. More than 1, people have been made homeless as a result of the attack, according to our humanitarian colleagues on the ground.
