The World Food Program (WFP) said Thursday that it is increasing its emergency operations to feed nearly 190,000 vulnerable people displaced and trapped in Ukraine. The WFP said that over the next few months, it will increase its assistance, including the distribution of locally-procured food to over 110,000 people, to meet urgent needs in areas where food supplies have dwindled. The agency said that it will require $9 million to continue to provide the humanitarian aid until June. "The humanitarian situation has deteriorated over the last few months in Donetsk and Luhansk with people fleeing their homes and taking refuge with extended families, in shelters, rented apartments and even in railway carriages," said Carlo Scaramella, WFP deputy regional director for the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. "In areas where the fighting is still raging, the situation is even more precarious with civilians without access to functioning markets or food supplies."
