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A group of Member States from the Security Council expressed its “profound concern” over the reported shelling of Kherson, Ukraine, during the evacuation from the areas flooded after the destruction of the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. UNIFEED

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it’s assessing the economic damage from the breaching of a dam in Ukraine, spokesperson Julie Kozack told reporters Thursday in Washington. IMF

The head of the UN World Health Organization said that Equatorial Guinea declared its outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease over. WHO

Briefing the Security Council, Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, said that the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam “means the plight of people in Ukraine is set to get even worse.” UNIFEED

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, called the damage caused to the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine a “monumental humanitarian, economic and ecological catastrophe”, also noting that the UN “has no access to independent information on the circumstances that led to the destruction”. UNIFEED

After the Nova Kakhovka dam was severely damaged leading to a significant reduction in the level of the reservoir used to supply cooling water to the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, said that the agency’s “current assessment is that there is no immediate risk to the safety of the plant.” IAEA

The humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic remains critical with 3,4 million people – or half of the population - in need of humanitarian assistance. Of those, 2.4 million have needs so severe that their survival and dignity is at risk, said the Humanitarian Coordinator Mohamed Ag Ayoya. UNTV CH

The Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, told the agency’s Board of Governors that the international community “took a step in the right direction” to prevent a nuclear accident at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. IAEA

A staggering 315,000 grave violations against children in conflict were verified by the United Nations between 2005 and 2022, a stark illustration of the devastating impact of war and conflict on children. UNICEF

The United Nations is concerned about the continuous slowdown of the implementation of the Black Sea Initiative, observed particularly in the months of April and May, a UN Spokesperson said. UNIFEED