Another Winter of War: NRC Head Jan Egeland on Visiting Ukraine & Latest on Sudan, Gaza and Syria
by webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#6SWQD)
International humanitarian leader Jan Egeland joins Democracy Now! to discuss aiding civilians in war-torn areas of Ukraine, Syria, Sudan and Gaza. In Ukraine, residents are bracing for another winter of war as a Russian offensive reaches within two miles of the key eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk. The population is exhausted, so imagine how it is in the trenches with those soldiers. Many of them have continuously been in battle for two years now," says Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council. The courageous humanitarian aid workers ... are targeted like the civilian population. Even ambulances are repeatedly hit."