A petition in the Senedd, calling on the Welsh government to help preserve the canal, has obtained more than 10,000 signatures.
, the number of patients complaining of mental health problems this year has doubled since 2023, and market research data shows antidepressant sales have jumped by almost 50% since 2021.A study published in the medical journal
suggests that 54% of Ukrainians (including refugees) have PTSD. Severe anxiety is prevalent among 21%, and high levels of stress among 18%.carried out in 2023 showed that 27% of Ukrainians felt depressed or very sad, up from 20% in 2021, the year before Russia's full-scale invasion.The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that the majority of Ukraine's population may be experiencing distress caused by war.
"It may have different symptoms. Some feel sadness, some feel anxiety, some have difficulties with sleep, some feel fatigue. Some are getting more angry. Some people have unexplained somatic syndromes, be it just pain or feeling bad," the WHO representative in Ukraine, Jarno Habicht, told the BBC.But, Mr Habicht says, Ukraine has made strides in dealing with the acute crisis and battling the Soviet-era stigma associated with mental health.
He says mental health was prioritised during the first months of the war. “Ukraine started to talk about mental health, and I think that's something unique which we have not seen in many places," Mr Habicht says.
Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska spearheads a mental health campaign calledIn recent weeks, South Korean and US intelligence as well as Nato have said that they have seen evidence of North Korean troops being involved in Russia's war.
But Moscow and Pyongyang have so far not responded directly to any of the allegations.Ukraine's top counter-disinformation official Andriy Kovalenko first said in a Telegram post on Monday that North Korea's "first military units... [had] already come under fire in Kursk".
In an interview with South Korean broadcaster KBS, Rustem Umerov confirmed this, saying he expects a "significant number" of the North Korean troops to be engaged in combat, though he added it was "so far just small contacts, not full-scale engagement".Most of them are still undergoing training, he added.