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From his hospital bed in Kyiv, a young British sailor raged against what he saw as the appeasement of Vladimir Putin by President Trump. “Ukraine is being straight up abandoned and fed to the dogs,” he said. “All the tens and thousands killed and wounded count for nothing.”

VOVCHANSK, Ukraine  — Vovchansk was on fire, and under attack. A group of humanitarian volunteers, including me, drove straight to the front to save animals left behind. Through dense smoke of forests burning from mortar fire, our team from NOR DOG, a Norwegian animal rescue group, entered Vovchansk with local police officers who helped us navigate destroyed streets...

Canadian photographer Madison Tuff has put together a short film capturing a day in the life of Vlad Poyansky, a member of the evacuation team at the East SOS Charitable Foundation. Vlad assists individuals in returning to government-controlled territory via the sole checkpoint in the Sumy region, where he hears firsthand accounts of life under occupation and the arduous journey of those rescued...

Except for the blood stains on the floors of the operating room, Ibn Sina Hospital, in the West Bank city of Jenin, was left spotlessly clean. It lasted no more than 15 minutes. “They were speaking perfect Arabic,” one doctor said of the 12 Israeli commandos who entered at the crack of dawn...

It could have been a tragic story costing British volunteer Edward Scott his life. As a humanitarian aid worker with the Ukrainian NGO "Baza UA" (the "Base UA" in Ukrainian), 28-year-old Scott has made multiple trips to the front-line areas to evacuate civilian Ukrainians.But the mission on Jan. 30 to the embattled city of Pokrovsk in southern Donetsk Oblast was different.

More than 175,000 lives have been saved by the ships of the civilian fleet – which we have been a part of for several years. In other words: You, along with many others, have played an important role in saving 175,000 lives! At the same time, 10 years of civilian sea rescue also means more than 30,000 deaths in the central Mediterranean alone – and, as always, that’s only the number of deaths known...

Today, we officially launched a new policy reaffirming @usaid’s commitment to supporting local leadership in humanitarian response. This policy outlines the Agency’s vision and goals for centering local actors and communities in emergency response, early recovery, resilience, and disaster risk reduction, and is designed to support a humanitarian system centered around local decisions and priorities. 

In the early morning of May 10th, explosions rocked northern Kharkiv city shortly after the Russian offensive in Vovchansk began. Within hours, NORD DOG Animal Rescue, a front line evacuation team which I’m a volunteer for, started taking requests from villagers in and around the city to save their pets....