Key updates on Jan. 25: UN Security Council to hold session on crashed Il-76 PACE calls on European parliaments to recognize Russia's abduction of Ukrainian children as genocide EU allocating $16.7 million for school shelters in Ukraine Official: 2 Ukrainian teenagers deported by Russia return to their families Denmark
The project will prioritize Ukrainian regions close to the front line or the border with Russia — Chernihiv, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, and Odesa — the Lithuanian Central Project Management Agency wrote in a press release. The organizers plan to build at least five next-to-school bomb shelters in these oblasts.
The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on the crash of the Russian Il-76 transport plane, which Russia claims carried Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW), the Voice of America reported on Jan. 25. While Moscow alleged that 65 Ukrainian POWs were on board the plane during the fatal crash, Ukraine has not confirmed this claim and called for an international investigation.