Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets on June 5 turned to to the governments of the European Union with a call to provide Ukrainian refugees with safe housing that “meets the minimum needs necessary for comfortable and safe living.” This is how the ombudsman reacted to a report from Germany, where a 9-year-old Ukrainian boy died as a result of a fire in a refugee shelter on June 4.
A fire in a house in the city of Apolda in the east of the federal state of Thuringia broke out early on Sunday morning. At the time of the fire, 245 people from Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine were registered in the refugee shelter. According to the head of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs in the federal state of Thuringia, Georg Mayer, a child from Ukraine died in the fire.
The Ukrainian ombudsman called on the authorities and law enforcement agencies of Germany to conduct a “full, impartial and quick investigation”, and also asked to consider the possibility of resettling the Ukrainians from the refugee shelter to a safer place.
“The decisive months of the war are beginning”: Ukrainians in Munich call for heavy weapons (photo report)
In Germany, several hundred demonstrators took part in a rally in support of Ukraine in Munich on Christmas Day according to the Julian calendar. The main appeal is to provide Ukraine with heavy weapons. German citizens also came to support the initiative.