Ukraine Live|Priyanka Chopra Asks World Leaders To Help: 'Can't Stand and Watch'
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A resident looks for belongings in an apartment building destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces in Borodyanka, Ukraine, Tuesday, 5 April.
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Actor and UNICEF goodwill advisor Priyanka Chopra, on Saturday, 9 April, took to Instagram to urge world leaders to stand up for refugees and “help people displaced from Ukraine and around the world.”
"We can't stand by and watch," she said.
Meanwhile, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the strike in Kramatorsk in the eastern region of Donetsk a deliberate attack on civilians and called for more weapons and harsher sanctions.
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council
Ukraine on Friday claimed that 17,000 Russian troops have been killed since the war began on 24 February.
Russia, Ukraine Accuse Each Other Of Train Station Attack
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described Russia as an "evil with no limits."
United States President Joe Biden too accused Russia of being behind the attack, calling it a "horrific atrocity." French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called it a "crime against humanity."
This comes at a time when civilians in eastern Ukraine are struggling to evacuate, as they were warned by the officials to avoid a major Russian attack expected in the Donbas region.
Russia's defence ministry in turn accused Kyiv of carrying out the attack, saying it wanted to use fleeing residents "as a human shield to defend the positions of Ukraine's armed forces."
Zelenskky Seeks 'Firm Global Response' to Missile Strike at Train Station
Zelenskyy called the strike in Kramatorsk in the eastern region of Donetsk a deliberate attack on civilians.
Blaming Russia for a missile attack that killed at least 52 people at a train station packed with women, children and the elderly fleeing Ukraine, Zelenskyy, according to Reuters, said:
'Help People Displaced From Ukraine': Priyanka Chopra Urges World Leaders
Actor and UNICEF goodwill advisor Priyanka Chopra, on Saturday, 9 April, took to Instagram to urge world leaders to stand up for refugees and "help people displaced from Ukraine and around the world."
"It is one of the fastest large-scale displacement of children since World War two. None of these children will ever be the same after what we have seen," Chopra said in a video uploaded on Instagram.
She also uploaded a UNICEF donation link to her bio.
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