OCHA / BROWN UKRAINE KAKHOVKA DAM

Denise Brown, Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) visited Bilozerka, where OCHA delivered 5 trucks to one of communities worst-affected by the floods caused by the Kakhovka Dam blast. OCHA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:50
• Production Date: 9 June 2023
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
• Geographic Subject: UKRAINE
• MAMS Id: 3053145
• Parent Id: 3053145
• Alternate Title: unifeed230609f

Description

STORY: OCHA / BROWN UKRAINE KAKHOVKA DAM
TRT: 02:50
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / UKRAINIAN / NATS

DATELINE: 09 JUNE 2023, BILOZERKA, UKRAINE

Shotlist

1. Traveling shot, flooding area
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Denise Brown Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, OCHA:
“For more than 700 people have had to leave this community of 6000 and move into the town. Humanitarian assistance was delivered day one. Food and water were here. Our teams are on the ground, assisting the community, assisting the local authorities. But this community has been hit literally by shelling. And now by the floods caused by the destruction of the dam, which is caused by the war. It is an intolerable level of suffering. But we're here to support.”
3. Med shot, Denise Brown talking to local residents
4. Pan left, flooded houses
5. Med shot, talking to local resident
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Denise Brown Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, OCHA:
“Where is your house?”
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) local resident:
“Number 19, we are bordering with Medvedevo and Kalinino streets, and water was up to Number 20.”
8. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) local resident:
“People spend a day, and we didn’t know. Water was coming intensively, and we were waiting for water from this and that side, as we are on a lowland.”
9. Med shot, aid delivery
10. Med shot, aid delivery
11. Wide shot, aid delivery

Storyline

Today (09 June), Denise Brown, Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) visited Bilozerka, where OCHA delivered 5 trucks to one of communities worst-affected by the floods caused by the Kakhovka Dam blast.

Denise Brown met residents and authorities, who thanked the United Nations for help since day one and asked not to forget them. Humanitarians in Ukraine are helping people to get to safer areas, access clean water and food, and getting cash assistance to meet their most urgent needs.

She said, “For more than 700 people have had to leave this community of 6000 and move into the town. Humanitarian assistance was delivered day one. Food and water were here. Our teams are on the ground, assisting the community, assisting the local authorities.”

Brown added, “But this community has been hit literally by shelling. And now by the floods caused by the destruction of the dam, which is caused by the war.”

“It is an intolerable level of suffering. But we're here to support,” she stressed.

According to a UN Spokesperson, more than 30 humanitarian organizations are present at train, bus stations, and transit centres to support people forced to leave their homes because of the flooding. Partners across Ukraine also offer medical and psychosocial support to people on the move and evacuees arriving in Mykolaiv, Odesa and other cities.