Editorial: Humanitarian help for Ukraine

In the age of instant communications, reports from the front lines of war reach the homes of millions in real time. Watching the plight of millions of Ukrainians trying to escape the horrors of Putin’s invasion is heart-wrenching. The brutality of the Russian aggression leaves no doubt that thousands if not millions of innocent civilians risk paying the highest price in this senseless war.
As usually happens when a war breaks out in any region, the international community responds by providing humanitarian aid to relieve some of the extreme hardships faced by the civilians caught up in the fighting or being directly targeted.

For Europeans, the Ukraine war is all the more traumatic because it is happening on their own continent and hits so close to home. With all the economic and social challenges that the EU is facing, it is still a union based on respect for human rights and the dignity of every human being. With its response so far to the massive influx of Ukrainian refugees, Europe is showing it can rise to the occasion in line with these fundamental values. The mobilisation of efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to displaced Ukrainians has now started in...