UN / UKRAINE RECONSTRUCTION

Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said recovery and reconstruction costs for Ukraine “now stand at an estimated $486 billion over the next decade,” up from $411 billion just a year ago. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:10
• Production Date: 15 February 2024
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: EUROPEAN COMMISSION; UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA; WORLD BANK
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT; FINANCING; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION
• Geographic Subject: UKRAINE
• MAMS Id: 3174230
• Parent Id: 3174230
• Alternate Title: unifeed240215e

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STORY: UN / UKRAINE RECONSTRUCTION
TRT: 02:10
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters

15 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric at the podium
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Our team in Ukraine, together with the World Bank, the European Commission, and the Government of Ukraine, released a joint Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment. It shows that the recovery and reconstruction costs now stand at an estimated $486 billion over the next decade. That is up from $411 billion just a year ago.
The Assessment, the third since the war's escalation in 2022, highlights housing, transport, commerce, industry, energy, and agriculture as the most impacted sectors. Approximately 2 million homes have been damaged or destroyed, impacting nearly 10 per cent of all housing units in Ukraine and hindering rebuilding efforts. The study also indicates about $80 billion in damage and losses in agriculture and $54 billion in revenue losses in the energy sector.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Reports of deadly attacks are continuing. They tell us that another wave of attacks across the country overnight and this morning resulted in civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure. That took place in Kyiv, in Zaporizhzhia and in the regions of Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytskyi and Lviv as reported by national authorities to us.
Local authorities in the front-line in Donetsk, Kharkiv and Kherson regions also reported additional civilian casualties and damage to vital civilian infrastructure resulting from continued hostilities. Humanitarian workers on the ground are providing support including plastic sheets and other supplies. We have also seen reports of a missile strikes on the Russian city of Belgorod. And we reiterate one more time that attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure are prohibited under international humanitarian law, are unacceptable and must stop immediately.”
7. Wide shot, journalists
8. Wide shot, Dujarric walks away

Storyline

Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric today (15 Feb) said recovery and reconstruction costs for Ukraine “now stand at an estimated $486 billion over the next decade,” up from $411 billion just a year ago.

The United Nations team in Ukraine, together with the World Bank, the European Commission, and the Government of Ukraine, released a joint Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment today, the third Assessment since the war's escalation in 2022.

The Assessment, Dujarric said, “highlights housing, transport, commerce, industry, energy, and agriculture as the most impacted sectors.”

He said, “approximately 2 million homes have been damaged or destroyed, impacting nearly 10 per cent of all housing units in Ukraine and hindering rebuilding efforts,” adding that “the study also indicates about $80 billion in damage and losses in agriculture and $54 billion in revenue losses in the energy sector.”

Humanitarian teams on the ground, Dujarric continued, have reported that “deadly attacks are continuing,” as “another wave of attacks” took place in in Kyiv, in Zaporizhzhia and in the regions of Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytskyi and Lviv overnight, resulting in “civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure. “

He said, “local authorities in the front-line in Donetsk, Kharkiv and Kherson regions also reported additional civilian casualties and damage to vital civilian infrastructure resulting from continued hostilities.”

The spokesperson said, “we have also seen reports of a missile strikes on the Russian city of Belgorod,” and reiterated that “attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure are prohibited under international humanitarian law, are unacceptable and must stop immediately.”