Fearing for their lives and the well-being of their loved ones, the Ukrainian Ministry of Health estimates that 15 million people may need psychosocial support because of the armed conflict
A war can be measured in numerous ways: from mounting death tolls and overcrowded hospital beds to the dwindling size of a military force and kilometres of land captured, recaptured and captured again.
Psychologist Olga Rusakova, who joined the Red Cross 10 years ago and has been a delegate in Ukraine for the past four years, tellsthat the mental health concerns of civilians is a much more urgent issue than people recognise. This “enormous stress and uncertainty” exists regardless of whether people “are still in their homes and dealing with the unpredictability of conflict or have fled to neighbouring countries and don’t know when they’ll be able to return home,” Rusakova adds.
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