🔴A long-brewing crisis caused by drought, war and poverty has now been accelerated by the Taliban's shock takeover in August.
The militants' resumption of their Islamic emirate has been accompanied by a suspension of aid and now economic collapse telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
The World Food Programme estimates nearly 23 million of the country's 39m population are now unable to get regular access to enough food.
🗣️"Children are going to die. People are going to starve. Things are going to get a lot worse," David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme warned.
The cost of food staples like oil, wheat and rice have soared by up to 55% in the past year.
The country's economy has been largely reliant on aid and government workers have not been paid since Ashraf Ghani's government collapsed
🗣️“The situation is already desperate... When winter sets in we’re going to see more children going hungry than ever before,” Orlaith Minogue, Save the Children's senior conflict and humanitarian advocacy adviser, said
🔴UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged "all parties" to "make every effort" to extend the agreement on Ukrainian grain exports, including facilitating shipments of Russian grain
🔴The Dutch military intelligence service has warned companies that Moscow is trying to obtain high-tech assets for its war in Ukraine through front companies, local media has reported
🔴 Ukrainians will freeze to death this winter if the West does not urgently send blankets and generators to keep them warm, Vitali Klitschko has said
The 51-year-old mayor of Kyiv, and former heavyweight boxing champion of the world, told The Telegraph's @Barnes_Joe that increasing Russian attacks on power plants have left his country on the brink of a fresh humanitarian crisis
🔴America is to bring forward the delivery of dozens of highly accurate guided tactical nuclear weapons to Europe amid escalating tensions with Moscow
➡️In what was seen as a move to reassure Nato allies amid Russian nuclear-sabre-rattling, the replacement process will begin in December, having previously been expected next spring
Before the war, when “Maugly” came across a rival football team supporter, it would usually end in a brawl.
Muscular, tattooed and with a shaved head, he looks every inch the football hooligan - and he admits he has acted like it too telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
He is part of Hoods Hoods Klan, an anti-fascist, anti-racist ultra group that supported the now-bankrupt Arsenal Kyiv and engaged in violence with rival football factions known for including neo-Nazis.
But all that has changed. Now they are more concerned with Russia’s violence