#civilian-casualties

#civilian-casualties

The world's first hub for child blast injury research has been opened in London with an immediate focus on providing support to victims in Ukraine.The Centre For Paediatric Blast Injury Studies, a partnership between Imperial College London and Save The Children, will particularly focus on reducing pain in children with limb loss and developing new prosthetics.

UK-based ambulance staff have been delivering medical equipment, vehicles and aid to war-torn Ukraine.David Dai' Morris, an advanced paramedic practitioner for the Welsh Ambulance Service, has driven on several occasions up to 2,000 miles from his home in South Wales to Ukraine.He has managed to transport with the help of others, up to 40 decommissioned emergency vehicles, filled with medical aid, including intensive care equipment, paramedic trauma equipment, generators, maternity and paediatric equipment along with first aid provisions.

A one-year-old baby boy was among dozens of children killed following British military action in Afghanistan, an investigation has found.The armed forces paid compensation to the relatives of 64 confirmed victims under the age of 18 over the course of nine years.But the true number of fatalities could be as high as 135 if those described as someone's son, daughter, nephew or similar are taken into account.

The US military is set to launch a formal investigation into a drone strike in Syria in early May, six weeks after the operation and following reports it killed a civilian rather than a senior al-Qaeda leader as first claimed, three defense officials familiar with the matter told CNN.The anticipated opening of the more formal inquiry, known as a 15-6, is the clearest sign yet that US Central Command may have botched the drone strike in northwest Syria on May 3. In the immediate aftermath of the strike, Gen. Erik Kurilla, the commander of Central Command, and his staff had high confidence that they had targeted and killed a senior al-Qaeda leader.

The US military is investigating a strike in Syria earlier this month that may have resulted in a civilian being killed, according to a statement from US Central Command.The strike, carried out on May 3 in northwest Syria, targeted a senior al-Qaeda leader, Central Command said in a tweet announcing the operation that day.

President Joe Biden on Saturday notified Congress of his decision to authorize an airstrike in Syria this week against what the US said were Iranian-affiliated facilities.The US airstrike came after a suspected Iranian drone struck a facility housing US personnel in the country, killing an American contractor and wounding five US service members.

Until gunfire broke out on the streets of El Fasher this month, the state capital of North Darfur had several main hospitals.There was the big teaching hospital, the Saudi hospital, a paediatric hospital and the South hospital, a modest 35-bed facility with big ambitions and a specific remit: to help bring down the high numbers of local women dying in pregnancy and childbirth.

By Karl Ritter | Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine Russia's advance seems to have stalled in Moscow's campaign to capture the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, a leading think tank said in an assessment of the longest ground battle of the war.The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said there were no confirmed advances by Russian forces in Bakhmut.

CAMERATA NUOVA On a bright morning in the mountains above the sleepy central Italian town of Camerata Nuova, a small and curly coated dog named Bella raced among the birch trees.As her owner leaned on a long, harpoon-shaped spade and shouted encouragement, she darted toward a tree and dug under a frosted carpet of dead leaves.

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 309th day, we take a look at the main developments.Here is the situation as it stands on Thursday, December 29.Air raid sirens rang out across Ukraine as several regions Kyiv, were facing a Russian missile attack.Sounds of explosions were heard in the capital, Kyiv, where the regional administration said air defense systems had been activated to fend off the ongoing missile attack.

At least 437 children are among more than 8,300 civilians who have been killed in Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February, the country's prosecutor general said on Saturday in a grim new accounting of the war's toll.Andriy Kostin, Ukraine's prosecutor general, said that in addition to the death toll, more than 11,000 civilians had been injured in the conflict.

At least 437 children have been killed in the war since February, Ukraine says.The aftermath of a deadly Russian missile attack in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, in July.Credit...Efrem Lukatsky/Associated Press At least 437 children are among more than 8,300 civilians who have been killed in Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February, the country's prosecutor general said on Saturday in a grim new accounting of the war's toll.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is nearly a year old, with Vladimir Putin having announced the launch of what Moscow calls a special military operation last February Western nations have ramped up military suport for Kyiv this week, with Germany and the US both announcing that they would send tanks to Ukraine.

Several cities in Ukraine, including Kyiv, were hit by Russian missile strikes on Thursday.Presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak said more than 120 missiles had been fired.In Kyiv, the regional administration said that air defense systems were activated.It said that fragments from a downed Russian missile damaged a private building in the Damtyskyi district.

Russian FM says Moscow's attacks on infrastructure in Ukraine are a justified response to inherent threats'.Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure are a justified response to inherent threats, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said in a televised press conference that lasted more than two hours.

An American-made missile fired by Ukrainian forces wounded three civilians in eastern Ukraine in September, according to residents and debris recovered from the scene, marking a rare instance where U.S.-supplied weapons were linked to civilian casualties in the nine-month-old conflict.The strike  from an AGM-88B High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile, which is fired from a fighter jet against ground targets like radar and air-defense systems  happened on Sept. 26 around 6 p.m. in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, residents said.

The UK government has paid compensation for at least 64 deaths of Afghan children, four times more than the 16 publicly acknowledged casualties by British forces during military operations.An analysis of the compensation payments - an average of 1,656 to each children's family - revealed there were 38 incidents involving 64 confirmed children deaths, according to the charity Action on Armed Violence (AOAV).