 So I'm joined by Dr. Thomas Weiss, who's our director of the IOM mission in Ukraine. He'll tell us a bit more about what the plans are for the upcoming winter, for the many thousands of people who are displaced in the east Ukraine, other things that are happening in the country. Welcome very much, Dr. Weiss, and tell us what's IOM doing right now in Ukraine. Thank you very much for having me. I appreciate the opportunity to tell you a little bit about the ongoing conflict in the eastern part of Ukraine and IOM's response. The conflict started, as you certainly know, about three and a half years ago, in the middle of 2014. So we will enter its fourth year as of April, May, in 2018. Currently, thanks to IOM's DTM, which is called Differently in Ukraine, it's the National Monitoring Mechanism. We have counted or we are counting about 1.6 million internally displaced persons. It continues to be a highly protracted conflict affecting essentially elderly people. This is one of the characteristics of the conflict in Ukraine, is that more than 60% of all the vulnerable people affected by the ongoing conflict are elderly people above the age of 65. This is the highest proportion of elderly people affected by any conflict worldwide. IOM is one of the first line respondents in the provision of support related to hygiene kits, related to the provision of non-food item support, related to the provision of coal for winterization. We have had last week in ECA in the Eastern Conflict Area the first distribution of coal. It's a program funded by PRM as well as the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, supporting 3,800 households with three tons of coal each. We hope to be able to finish the distribution before the end of this year actually. We had a very interesting, very nice encounter last week when I went down to Donetsk with our first beneficiary of this year's coal distribution, elderly lady 80-84. She has been working as a primary school teacher for 40 years, a very sweet old lady with her house close to the contact line. She has been telling us about the daily shelling and about how difficult, obviously, it has been for her to adapt to the situation. So we came with a lorry, distributed the coal, put it in front of her house basically, and then some neighbors were coming with shovels in order to help her. Then she was telling us, you know, I'm so happy about this coal now. I think I will have to live a little bit longer in order to really make good use of the coal that you have just distributed to me, you know. And indeed now with winter at the doorstep, temperatures are below zero, there's snow, there's ice, it gets up to minus 20 in the high days of winter, sometimes in January and February. Coal is an essential part of our life-saving humanitarian support to those very vulnerable people affected by the ongoing conflict. And it's extremely useful because obviously many partners have limitations in terms of their work there, in terms of access to affected populations. Authorities are having very limited capabilities, capacities, finances in order to support their people. So IOM is one of the first line respondents together with a handful of other players like the Red Cross, UNHCR and a few international NGO players actually. We are also focusing on supporting some of the local host communities with interventions in the area of social cohesion. Psychosocial support is extremely important to help people cope and at one point of time overcome all the trauma they have experienced because of the prolonged exposure to very often dramatic and traumatic experiences. We also work a lot in the area of the provision of emergency livelihoods and trying to help those most deeply affected by the ongoing crisis to regain some material autonomy, falling back materially on their feet through the creation of opportunities for income, making them also less dependent upon international support. We have activities also focusing on host communities in terms of the rehabilitation of social infrastructure. One of the overarching ideas here is to create an environment, a platform, spaces where representatives of the IDP communities would be getting together with representatives of local host communities entering into dialogue, sharing experiences, sometimes doing things together. We have a very interesting project funded by social cohesion in libraries, in public libraries for instance, in quite a number of different towns and villages in the so-called government control areas where we organize masterclasses in Japanese arts and culture, calligraphy, origami and other crafts that help people to focus on something different than the impact of the conflict. And through this entering into dialogue, sympathizing with each other and creating a different type of atmosphere that would be conducive to building bridges between local host communities and representatives of IDP communities. And we have always received good feedback from our beneficiaries, from the local host communities who find these types of activities extremely useful, helping them to overcome their trauma and helping them to focus on something else than the daily routines and trying to cope with the difficult environment that they're exposed to. Exactly. I think it's fascinating. So you're building already sort of getting communities ready for peace and for post-conflict, even in the midst of a conflict that's raging every day. We don't hear much about it, it's still going on, but now we've heard some more about it. So thank you very much for filling us in and best of luck with your work and to all your staff all over the country who do an amazing job frying them. Thank you Dr Weiss. Thank you very much. Much appreciate it.