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STORY: UN / UKRAINE UPDATE
TRT: 01:45
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 DECEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Med shot, flag, United Nations Headquarters
13 DECEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Dujarric at the podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Our humanitarian colleagues on the ground tell us that an airstrike on Kyiv this morning left dozens of civilians injured, including children. This is the third attack on Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, in less than a week. According to humanitarians on the ground, critical infrastructure in at least four of the capital’s 10 districts have been damaged, including homes, a hospital and a kindergarten. Water and electricity systems were also hit, but authorities managed to quickly restore these vital supplies. Humanitarian partners have rapidly mobilized emergency assistance and distributed blankets and hot meals for hundreds of people. They also provided psychosocial and medical assistance and legal support, in addition to registering those impacted by the attack for cash assistance.”
4. Wide shot, briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Sites to help people stay warm have been set up, complementing the efforts of the authorities to find accommodation for people whose houses were damaged.
Due to a cyberattack on one of Ukraine’s largest mobile phone operators, millions of people are currently without access to an air raid warning system in the Kyiv Region, but also in some parts of the north and the centre of the country, that’s what national authorities are telling us.”
6. Med shot, journalist speaking
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Once again, we stress that deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure are forbidden under international humanitarian law – that includes telecommunications and other infrastructure that help people to be informed and protected during times of war.”
8. Wide shot, briefing room
Briefing reporters on Ukraine, a UN spokesperson said, “our humanitarian colleagues on the ground tell us that an airstrike on Kyiv this morning left dozens of civilians injured, including children, this is the third attack on Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, in less than a week.”
Speaking today (13 Dec) in New York, Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, said, “According to humanitarians on the ground, critical infrastructure in at least four of the capital’s 10 districts have been damaged, including homes, a hospital and a kindergarten.”
He added, “water and electricity systems were also hit, but authorities managed to quickly restore these vital supplies. Humanitarian partners have rapidly mobilized emergency assistance and distributed blankets and hot meals for hundreds of people.”
Dujarric continued, “they also provided psychosocial and medical assistance and legal support, in addition to registering those impacted by the attack for cash assistance.”
According to him, “sites to help people stay warm have been set up, complementing the efforts of the authorities to find accommodation for people whose houses were damaged.”
He also noted, “due to a cyberattack on one of Ukraine’s largest mobile phone operators, millions of people are currently without access to an air raid warning system in the Kyiv Region, but also in some parts of the north and the centre of the country, that’s what national authorities are telling us.”
The spokesperson said, “once again, we stress that deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure are forbidden under international humanitarian law – that includes telecommunications and other infrastructure that help people to be informed and protected during times of war.”
