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STORY: GENEVA / EASTERN UKRAINE HUMANITARIAN
TRT: 1:28
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 07 OCTOBER 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Laerke, Deputy Spokesperson, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“More than 73,000 people, and that's nearly half of the population in the retaken areas in Kharkivska oblast, have received food assistance. We've also distributed 12,000 hygiene kits and kitchen sets, solar lamps, and blankets to 15,000 people.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Laerke, Deputy Spokesperson, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“Our access to these areas that we have now follows several months of intense fighting. Nearly 140,000 people are believed to remain in the towns, villages, and settlements in areas where control has changed, but they have extremely limited access to food, water, gas, electricity, and medical services.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Laerke, Deputy Spokesperson, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“In Izium, some 8,000 to 9,000 people remain there in that town, that’s down from its original population of around 46,000 people. And those remaining are completely dependent on humanitarian aid to survive.”
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Laerke, Deputy Spokesperson, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“Markets and shops in Izium have been destroyed or are closed. Families gather in the main town square to exchange their possessions and supplies to meet their basic needs.”
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Urgently needed aid relief has reached areas of north-east Ukraine recently reclaimed from Russian control amid ongoing fighting, UN humanitarians said on Friday (7 Oct).
More than 73,000 people in Kharkiv oblast have now received food assistance, nearly half of the population in the retaken areas.
Villages and settlements across the oblast that are back under Ukrainian government control are unable to meet even their most basic needs, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
“Our access to these areas follows several months of intense fighting,” said OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke.
“Nearly 140,000 people are believed to remain in the towns, villages, and settlement in areas where control has changed, but they have extremely limited access to food, water, gas, electricity and medical services.”
In the town of Izium, the eight to 9,000 people still there are “completely dependent” on humanitarian aid to survive, Laerke continued.
The OCHA spokesperson explained that markets and shops had been destroyed or closed, and families “gather in the main town square” to exchange possessions and supplies to meet their basic needs.
Further north and at the edge of Luhansk oblast, the town of Kupiansk is today home to 4,000 people, compared with the pre-war population of 28,000.
“Hostilities and fighting are still frequent there,” OCHA reported, adding that aid convoys have delivered food, water, essential household items, medicines, and health services to Izium and Kupiansk, where volunteer groups have responded, too.
In addition to food assistance, OCHA has coordinated the distribution of 12,000 hygiene kits and kitchen sets, solar lamps, and blankets to 15,000 people.
