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A top UN official said, “repeated calls” for protection of civilians in Russia and Ukraine “appear to fall on deaf ears.” UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / UKRAINE
TRT: 02:34
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS

DATELINE: 08 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters

08 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Wide shot, Council dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations:
“The past two weeks have instead witnessed an intensification of attacks on civilians across different regions of Ukraine. Strikes have also been reported inside the Russian Federation including today in the Belgorod region reportedly leading to casualties. Regrettably, our repeated calls for protection of civilians appear to fall on deaf ears.”
5. Med shot, Russian representative
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations:
“Russia’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine has already resulted in the death of 10,703 civilians, including 594 children. 20,146 more, including 1,316 children, have been injured. We condemn all attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure they are prohibited under international law. They are unacceptable and must stop now.”
7. Wide shot, OCHA official Lisa Doughten speaking
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Doughten, Director, Financing and Partnerships Division, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“We continue to face significant obstacles to reaching everyone in need. One of the most significant challenges remains the lack of humanitarian access to the parts of Donetska, Khersonska, Luhanska and Zaporizka oblasts occupied by the Russian Federation. As hostilities continue to escalate, we are deeply concerned about the fate of the civilians in these territories whom we are unable to reach at scale. The consequences for an estimated 1.5 million people in need of life-saving assistance there are unthinkable.”
9. Wide shot, Russian Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy speaking
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Polyanskiy, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“Repeatedly, and with specific examples, we have proven that high precision strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces on targets in Ukraine linked to the military potential of Kyiv regime present no danger for the civilians of that country that are not present at those objects. That is well known by ordinary Ukrainians who have repeatedly been able to see that their lives are threatened exclusively by the work of the unprofessional Ukrainian air defence systems that are also deployed among other places in residential districts of Ukrainian cities.”
11. Med shot, Ukraine Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya speaking
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine:
“Russia not only inflicts deliberate harm upon civilians, attacking critical civilian infrastructure, schools, and hospitals in Ukraine, but also continues its abhorrent practice of abducting Ukrainian children. Today, Ukrainian authorities have identified 19,546 children who have been deported to the Russian Federation. So far, only 388 of them have been successfully returned and reunited with their families.”
13. Wide shot, end of Council session

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A top UN official today (8 Mar) said, “repeated calls” for protection of civilians in Russia and Ukraine “appear to fall on deaf ears.”

Khaled Khiari, who is Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific at the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, told the Security Council that “the past two weeks have instead witnessed an intensification of attacks on civilians across different regions of Ukraine,” while “strikes have also been reported inside the Russian Federation including today in the Belgorod region reportedly leading to casualties.”

Khiari told the Council that “Russia’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine has already resulted in the death of 10,703 civilians, including 594 children. 20,146 more, including 1,316 children, have been injured.”

He condemned “all attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure as they are prohibited under international law,” adding that “they are unacceptable and must stop now.”

Also briefing the Council, the Director of the Financing and Partnerships Division at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Lisa Doughten, said, “we continue to face significant obstacles to reaching everyone in need. One of the most significant challenges remains the lack of humanitarian access to the parts of Donetska, Khersonska, Luhanska and Zaporizka oblasts occupied by the Russian Federation.”

As hostilities continue to escalate, she said, “we are deeply concerned about the fate of the civilians in these territories whom we are unable to reach at scale” and stressed that “the consequences for an estimated 1.5 million people in need of life-saving assistance there are unthinkable.”

Russian Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy said, “repeatedly, and with specific examples, we have proven that high precision strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces on targets in Ukraine linked to the military potential of Kyiv regime present no danger for the civilians of that country that are not present at those objects. That is well known by ordinary Ukrainians who have repeatedly been able to see that their lives are threatened exclusively by the work of the unprofessional Ukrainian air defence systems that are also deployed among other places in residential districts of Ukrainian cities.”

For his part, Ukraine Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya said, “Russia not only inflicts deliberate harm upon civilians, attacking critical civilian infrastructure, schools, and hospitals in Ukraine, but also continues its abhorrent practice of abducting Ukrainian children. Today, Ukrainian authorities have identified 19,546 children who have been deported to the Russian Federation. So far, only 388 of them have been successfully returned and reunited with their families.”

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