{"id":73399,"date":"2025-12-05T14:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/?p=73399"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:49:10","slug":"christmas-party-under-drone-attacks-and-rocket-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/uk\/christmas-party-under-drone-attacks-and-rocket-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas party under drone attacks and rocket fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>This would be the third Christmas celebration that the ISHR (International Society for Human Rights) has organised for aid workers and victims of the war<\/h1>\n<div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\">\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ishr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-Ukraine-1-400x778.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"309\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christmas celebration at the children\u2019s hospital \u00a9 ISHR Ukraine Section<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe situation in northeastern Ukraine is deteriorating. People there are suffering from ongoing power outages, inadequate logistics, and especially the psychological pressure of approaching, buzzing drones. Due to unpredictable missile attacks, children spend most of their school time in air-raid shelters. The winter cold forces them to decide: to leave or to stay? They feel overlooked by large aid organisations and the government. That\u2019s why we are helping there. In Putivl, a small town of approximately 15,000 inhabitants, roughly 20 kilometres from the Russian border, high school students are assisting us in distributing humanitarian aid to newly arriving displaced persons and refugees from the front lines. They even venture out to reach elderly people who cannot bring themselves to leave their homes, which are already under fire. We want to organise a public Christmas celebration with these high school students, who themselves are living in difficult circumstances, and bring together aid workers and those receiving assistance,\u201d wrote Anton Alekseyev, head of the ISHR Ukraine section.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This would be the third Christmas celebration that the ISHR (International Society for Human Rights) has organised for aid workers and victims of the war. Last year, we supported two celebrations: one at the children\u2019s hospital in Kyiv for children who couldn\u2019t be discharged to their families for Christmas because one or both parents had died in the war, and another celebration at a school held in a makeshift shelter. To lift their spirits, ISHR members sang and played games with them, and each child received a small gift. Our commitment remains firm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-2\">\n<p><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-2 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-21635\" title=\"2025-12-Ukraine-2\" src=\"https:\/\/ishr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-Ukraine-2.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 480px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ishr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-Ukraine-2-200x232.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ishr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-Ukraine-2-400x463.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ishr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-Ukraine-2.jpg 480w\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"556\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\">\n<div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\">\n<p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Christmas celebration at the bunker school \u00a9 ISHR Ukraine Section<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This would be the third Christmas celebration that the ISHR (International Society for Human Rights) has organised for aid workers and victims of the war &nbsp; \u201cThe situation in northeastern Ukraine is deteriorating. People there are suffering from ongoing power outages, inadequate logistics, and especially the psychological pressure of approaching, buzzing drones. Due to unpredictable missile attacks, children spend most of their school time in air-raid shelters. The winter cold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":73400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Christmas party under drone attacks and rocket fire - Menschenrechte Osteuropa - News &amp; Konflikte","description":"This would be the third Christmas celebration that the ISHR (International Society for Human Rights) has organised for aid workers and victims of the war &nbsp;"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,1240,487,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bl-en","category-country-ukraine-3","category-country-ukraine-2-en","category-ukraine-cat-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73408,"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73399\/revisions\/73408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}