FINALLY! Incredible moment for #Ukraine and also for global security and democratic values. Congress has finally spoken. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

Long overdue: the US Congress has finally approved the $61 bln aid package for Ukraine. 310 votes in favour, 112 - all of them Republicans - against.
Some good news, at last, and hopes that new ammunition will reach Ukraine's frontline quickly

Crucial and right decision by the US House of Representatives to send Ukraine urgent military aid.

The best way to secure ourselves is to make sure we help Ukraine to win its fight for freedom.

Hope this vote encourages all allies to look through their warehouses and do more.

Another great piece of news from the US today. Europe must follow suit

This. Today is a day worth celebrating, but there remains serious work to do. This supplemental is likely the last Ukraine aid Congress will pass until after the election—depending on what happens in November, it could be the end of US aid to Ukraine. Europe needs a war economy.

I take a taxi to the airport in Washington with a sense of relief. The aid package for Ukraine passed the House of Representatives, where it was blocked for eight months. Most likely, it will be voted on in the Senate on Tuesday, but there will be no problems there.

I will…

US House support for $60bn funding for Ukraine is a vital step forward.

If Putin ever doubted the West's resolve to back Ukraine, this shows our collective will is undimmed.

With support, Ukraine can and will win.
#StandWithUkraine

The authorization of aid to Ukraine in the House of Representatives is a huge breakthrough.

Mike Johnson deserves huge credit for the bipartisan cooperation that made this happen.

In this world of disorder, all sides in our democracies must work together to defend freedom.

Save the Children International Plan International Islamic Relief Worldwide MSF International 💬“It’s beyond imagination. It’s apocalyptic. We see it in movies, for people in Sudan, this is real life,” one aid worker said.

💬“It's a nightmare that refuses to end. Sudan was in crisis before, but now its been pushed over the brink,' another added.
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Save the Children International Plan International Islamic Relief Worldwide MSF International 🏠Some of those who remain in Sudan are living in the remnants of their damaged homes or abandoned buildings, while others are staying in overcrowded public buildings.

In one school, a block designed to house 1,000 boys is now hosting 8,000 people, including women and children.

Save the Children International Plan International Islamic Relief Worldwide MSF International The conflict has also triggered the world’s biggest displacement crisis, with 20,000 people forced to flee their homes *each day*.

Many have escaped over the border into countries including South Sudan, where I travelled to last year as the war raged.👇
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Save the Children International Plan International Islamic Relief Worldwide 💬“We’re having to make difficult decisions throughout the country about focusing our activity,” said MSF International's head of mission in Sudan, Jean Stowell.

“What is the most lifesaving care? Do you focus on maternity or the war wounded?”
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Save the Children International Plan International Islamic Relief Worldwide 🏥Sudan’s healthcare system has “all but collapsed”, with 80% of hospitals in Sudan out of operation and the remaining 20% “barely functional”.

🩺Medical supplies and staffing levels are running critically low, with doctors having to flee violence themselves.

Save the Children International Plan International 💧Clean water is also scarce.

One humanitarian team had to use donkey carts to haul water into a hospital after several days without running water.

Islamic Relief Worldwide said some civilians are resorting to drinking from streams and rivers to survive.
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Save the Children International ♀️ Girls as young as 11 and 12 are being married to men often three or four times their age, as families decide they can no longer support them.

Plan International warns that if the country tips into famine, 'survival sex will also become a reality.'
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These shortages have already led to children dying of starvation.

Every seventh child in Sudan is accutely malnourished.

Save the Children International warns that 220,000 children and 7,000 mothers will likely die in the coming months without urgent intervention.
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Food prices in Sudan are 73% higher than last year and 350% above 5 year averages.

Many people are eating just one meal a day made up of “whatever they can lay their hands on”, aid workers said.

Breastfeeding mothers are struggling to produce milk due to lack of nutrition.

At least 14,700 people have been killed in Sudan since April 2023, when the Sudanese Armed Forces and paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces began battling for control of the country.

Food, water and medicine is scarce, and fighting is almost constant.

Children married as young as 11, others starving to death.

Families drinking from streams or eating weeds to survive.

This is the grim reality of life in Sudan, one year after it errupted into bloody civil war.

A thread🧵
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Today is the 95th birthday of the wonderful Ruth Posner BEM, Holocaust survivor and our dear friend. You can read more about her extraordinary life at: het.org.uk/survivors-ruth…. Please #sendhersomelove !