Russia continues to prevent aid organizations from safely crossing into Oleshki and Hula Pristan in the Kherson region, leaving frontline residents without enough supplies or medicine, UN aid coordinator Matthias Schmale reported.

Russia continues to prevent aid organizations from safely crossing into Oleshki and Hula Pristan in the Kherson region, leaving frontline residents without enough supplies or medicine, UN aid coordinator Matthias Schmale reported.

According to international legal norms, the occupying power bears the obligation to provide citizens with food and medical items while facilitating aid shipments when necessary, he noted.