Infectious diseases amidst a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine: A rising concern.

Essar, Mohammad Yasir et. all. (2022)

 

“As of the 24th of February 2022, the war in Ukraine has increased the risk for infectious diseases outbreaks in the country and beyond. The disruption of healthcare services, the destruction of critical infrastructure, the displacement of millions of civilians and the crowded living conditions in bunkers pose a formiddable threat to public health. Infections are emphasized due to the low rates of vaccination against COVID-19 and the high prevalence of chronic infections such as Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Ukraine compared to the WHO Europe region. Collaboration between authorities and humanitarian organizations is necessary, in order to strengthen epidemiological surveillance and deploy vital resources that are required for the prevention and the management of infections.”

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103950

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Humanitarian Aid in times of war: organisation and ignorance

Pawlak, Mikolaj, (2022)

 

The author of this paper focuses on the organisation of aid for Ukrainian refugees in Poland. The question that is the basis of this paper is: Why, in the case of Ukrainian refugees, is there almost unanimity in organising aid, while in the past other categories of refugees were denied aid? 

https://doi.org/10.1177/017084062210991

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The humanitarian crisis in Kharkiv

Chumachenko Dmytro and Chumachenko Tetyana, (2022)

 

This paper emphasises that the international community must ensure the supply of humanitarian aid from European countries. Russia must comply with international humanitarian law, ensure the protection of the civilian population, and refrain from unlawful attacks. The space for neutral, impartial, and independent humanitarian action must be protected so that humanitarian organisations can have access to civilians.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o796

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Responding to the War in Ukraine

Anthony Fong and Kirsten Johnson, (2022)

 

This paper covers how people and organisations can contribute and help respond to the war in Ukraine. It is known that one’s well-intended actions can do harm if not coordinated with organisations experienced in disaster response. Even for licensed emergency physicians, humanitarian-aid work requires specific training to be most effective.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43678-022-00319-8 

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Existential Nationalism: Russia’s War Against Ukraine

Knott, Eleanor (2022)

 

‘If Russia stops fighting, there will be no war. If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no Ukraine’ is the sentiment used by Ukrainian protesters mobilising against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Such a sentiment signifies the stakes of a war where Ukraine is a democratic nation-state fighting for its right to exist against a Russian invasion. Meanwhile, Russia is fighting for a version of Ukraine that is subservient to Russia’s idea of what Ukraine should be as a nation-state: under a Russian hegemon geopolitically, where Ukraine’s national idea and interpretation of history can be vetted and vetoed by the Russian state. While nationalism scholarship equips us to study Russia’s war against Ukraine through the lens of Russian ethnic nationalism and Ukrainian civic nationalism, the ethnic/civic dichotomy falls short of unpacking the more pernicious logics that pervade Russia’s intentions and actions towards Ukraine (demilitarisation and de-Nazification). Instead, this article explores the logics of Russia’s war and Ukraine’s resistance through the concept of existential nationalism where existential nationalism is Russia’s motivation to pursue war, whatever the costs, and Ukraine’s motivation to fight with everything it has.

https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12878 

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The Opinions of Poles about the Need to Provide Humanitarian Aid to Refugees from the Area Covered by the Russian–Ukrainian War

Katarzyna Karakiewicz-Krawczyk, et. all. (2022)

 

“The aim of the research was to collect Poles’ opinions about the need to provide humanitarian aid to Ukrainians from the territories of the Russian–Ukrainian war. Capturing feelings of Poles towards Ukrainians during the war is an interesting issue that shows subjective opinions about the existential situation perceived in the space of mutual personal interactions. The results showing opinions on help were collected from a group of 1012 people throughout Poland with the help of an authorial questionnaire. The obtained data shows a positive attitude of Poles to Ukrainians.”

https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013369

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The Ukraine Support Tracker: Which Countries Help Ukraine and How?

Antezza, A. et. all. (2023)

 

“This paper presents the “Ukraine Support Tracker”, which lists and quantifies military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war. This sixth version covers government commitments made between January 24 and August 3, 2022 and has a new detailed overview on weapon deliveries. We track support by 40 governments, including all G7 and European Union member countries, plus by EU institutions (thus including 41 donors). Private donations and aid through non-governmental organisations are not included due to a lack of systematic data, but we do show estimates on government costs of hosting Ukrainian refugees. To value in-kind support like military equipment or foodstuff, we rely on government statements as well as our own calculations using market prices. We find significant differences in the scale of support across countries, both in absolute terms and as percent of donor country GDP. In billions of Euros, by far the largest bilateral supporter of Ukraine is the United States, followed by the EU institutions and the United Kingdom. In percent of donor GDP, Eastern European countries stand out as particularly generous, and this is even more so once we account for refugee costs. In the past months (June and July), new commitments have fallen notably, thus further widening the gap between what Ukraine demands and the foreign aid it receives.”

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/262746/1/KWP2218v5.pdf

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