KYIV, Sept 15 – In Ukraine today, 18 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, and the humanitarian situation can be expected to worsen due to ongoing Russian attacks and the approach of winter, Spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Ukraine Saviano Abreu has said.

"The full-scale invasion led to a grave humanitarian crisis here. There was a humanitarian situation in the country, but it was not as catastrophic as it is now. We're talking about 18 million people that need humanitarian assistance. It's almost half of the people that are in Ukraine now," Abreu said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.