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Ukraine : Les familles en « mode survie » face aux frappes russes et au froid de -18°C
Les familles à travers l'Ukraine sont en « mode survie constant » au milieu des vagues continues de frappes de missiles et de drones russes qui ont laissé des quartiers sans électricité pendant des jours, tandis que les températures plongent à un mortel -18°C, a déclaré vendredi le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance (UNICEF).
« Les familles en sont venues à bourrer même des peluches dans leurs fenêtres pour bloquer un peu du froid glacial », a déclaré Munir Mammadzade, Représentant de l'UNICEF en Ukraine.
L'alerte suit une autre nuit d'attaques contre les infrastructures électriques dans l'oblast de Zaporizhzhia au sud et l'oblast de Kharkiv à l'est, qui ont laissé de nombreuses zones résidentielles sans électricité et chauffage.
La menace mortelle du froid causée par les attaques sur les infrastructures électriques devient une « urgence à l'échelle nationale... en plus de la guerre », a déclaré M. Mammadzade aux journalistes à Genève lors d'un point de presse programmé.
En soulignant des températures de -15°C à Kyiv vendredi, le responsable de l'UNICEF a averti que la semaine prochaine pourrait être encore plus froide, tandis que des millions de familles à travers le pays vivent sans chauffage. « Les enfants et les familles sont en mode survie constant à cause de cela », a-t-il dit.
Alors que l'accent humanitaire jusqu'à présent a été mis sur les zones de première ligne, les frappes russes constantes sur les infrastructures urbaines, y compris les zones résidentielles, ont mis en lumière un ensemble de besoins beaucoup plus complexe parmi les personnes vivant dans des immeubles d'appartements.
Cela inclut Svitlana, résidente de Kyiv, « qui fait ce qu'elle peut pour s'occuper de sa fille de trois ans, Adina », au 10ème étage de son immeuble. « Elle nous a dit qu'elle n'avait pas de chauffage ni d'électricité pendant plus de trois jours, et c'était dans la première semaine de perturbation - nous sommes déjà dans la deuxième ou presque troisième semaine - et de nombreuses familles continuent de s'en passer », a déclaré M. Mammadzade.
Reprenant ces préoccupations depuis Kyiv, Jaime Wah de la Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (FICR) a noté que bien que l'électricité ait été rétablie « en quelques jours » après les précédentes attaques sur Kharkiv et Odessa, la situation semblait plus difficile dans la capitale, où elle se frottait les mains pour se réchauffer tout en parlant par vidéo aux journalistes à Genève. « À Kyiv, nous faisons face à une situation de coupures prolongées et aussi à des populations plus nombreuses affectées à cause de cela », a-t-elle dit.
Près de quatre ans après l'invasion russe à grande échelle de l'Ukraine, « la vie des enfants est encore consumée par des pensées de survie et non d'enfance », a averti M. Mammadzade de l'UNICEF, notant une augmentation de 11 % des victimes d'enfants vérifiées en 2025, par rapport à l'année précédente.
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Highlighting the long-term decline in the Earth’s freshwater storage and glacier melt, WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo explained that the planet’s water reserves used to act as a planetary “savings account” that absorbed the occasional dry season, avoiding a water crisis. “One of the central stories of the 2025 report is what is happening to that savings account? And the simple answer is that we are depleting it,” she told journalists in Geneva.
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Glaciers disappearing
In 2025, for the fourth consecutive year, every major glaciated region on Earth lost ice mass, leading to short-term hazards including floods and long-term water insecurity, according to WMO.
Responding to a question about whether the changing global water cycle might have contributed to the deadly Nepal-China flooding disaster, Ms. Saulo explained that melting ice and rock was just one factor in the chain of events that ultimately sent a massive and deadly wall of water and debris downstream on 26 August, killing at least 1,367 people.
“You asked if it could happen again? Absolutely; the problem in this region is that there’s 63,700 glaciers at the last count,” she told a Press Conference in Geneva. “Even if you’re looking with remote sensing with satellites at these glaciers, you might see some faults, you might see some slight shifting, that does not mean necessarily catastrophic collapse. So, in order to plan for this, it’s very, very difficult. But the international community is looking very hard at ways in which we can bring people together to solve some of these monitoring issues.”
Data indicates that glaciers shrank between 2023 and 2025 with cumulative losses of 1,400 gigatonnes of water – or about one third of annual fresh water needs.
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Some regions with smaller glaciers such as Central Europe, the Caucasus, the western Canada and the United States may already have reached “peak water”, Mr. Jenkinson warned.
“After this point, the glacier gives less meltwater each year simply because there is less ice left to melt. That matters for every community downstream that relies on water during hot, dry summers,” he explained.
Narelle van der Wel, WMO’s Head of Cryosphere Monitoring, Predictions and Services, stressed that while some further glacier loss is unavoidable, the eventual scale of the decline is not predetermined.
“Some glacier loss is inevitable, but total loss of glaciers is not yet inevitable,” she said, pointing to emissions reductions as central to limiting future losses.
Preparing for moving baselines
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Mr. Jenkinson said governments need to prepare for “moving baselines” as historical patterns become less reliable.
“The situation 30 years ago is not where we are today,” he said. Countries, he added, need to prepare “for those changes that have really already arrived”.
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