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STORY: UN / UKRAINE
TRT: 06:40
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 10 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
10 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Acting Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“According to local authorities in the Donetsk region, almost half the residents of a frontline town in their area have evacuated in the last two weeks. Several hospitals in the region have also had to relocate, making health services scarce amidst growing needs for people who remain. Mr. President, while civilians in frontline areas of Donetsk and parts of Kharkiv are among those most heavily impacted, attacks elsewhere – in Dnipro, Kyiv, Lviv, Poltava, and other cities – have also caused significant civilian casualties and damage to essential infrastructure.”
4. Wide shot, Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Acting Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“Since Ukraine’s military operation into the Kursk region of the Russian Federation on 6 August, at least 130,000 civilians have been evacuated, according to local Russian officials. Media reports indicate civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure. I must remind all parties of the obligation to take constant care to spare civilians and civilian objects, as international humanitarian law demands.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Acting Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“This war has gone on far too long. It has caused immense suffering and left more than 14.6 million people, or 40 per cent of Ukraine’s population, in need of humanitarian assistance. As it escalates, its toll will only increase. Protecting civilians, and ultimately ending this war, is a matter of will.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert A. Wood, Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, United States:
“For some time, US has warned Iran publicly and privately, that transferring ballistic missiles to Russia would constitute a dramatic escalation. Russia has now received these missiles and will likely use them within weeks in Ukraine. As a consequence, United States will announce sanctions later today against Iran. We will also consult with our partners on what additional steps may be needed to respond to this dangerous escalation.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“We have just heard the latest selection of lamentations from our hypocritical Western colleagues about Russian troops in recent days carrying out strikes, targeting military infrastructure, related targets and infrastructure related to military. They were indeed very impressive and effective. From among the targets that were struck are the Military Institute in Poltava, which was training specialists in communications, a hotel in Kryvyi Rih, where officers of the Ukrainian intelligence services were residing. A number of important energy infrastructure were also destroyed, as well as air drum infrastructure of Ukraine, fuel depots, arsenals of Western aircraft, weapons and artillery munitions, storage sites and manufacturing sites for UAVs, areas of storage for uncrewed vessels and areas for the accommodation for units of nationalist units and foreign mercenaries. A distinguishing feature of this spate of strikes was a significant increase in liquidations of a number of foreign instructors, specialists and mercenaries. For this reason, those who are following this issue can anticipate a large number of obituaries about the sudden demise of highly specialized US, British, French, Polish and Swedish military personnel.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine:
“The whining of the Russian envoy about a defense operation on Russian territory is a striking contrast to Putin's radio silence and the Russian Ministry of Defense denial of events on Russian territory. It is not for the first time that the Russian envoy is out of tune with his masters. Let's recall the night of the full-scale invasion - in this chamber. We have addressed the Security Council with a request to convene this meeting due to the recent spike of missile terror by Russia against Ukrainian people and critical infrastructure. This escalation is causing widespread suffering and devastation and must be addressed before it leads to an even larger humanitarian catastrophe.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine:
“The world is not a criminal neighborhood in Leningrad, where Putin grew up, and the international community is not a group of intimidated passersby afraid of a street altercation. Putin has already shed so much blood that Russia's attempts to intimidate the world with red lines simply do not work. It is clear that peaceful civilians in Ukraine will be protected much better if we shift our aim from the missiles over our heads, to their launch sights and places of storage.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Stavros Lambrinidis, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations:
“While Russia rages its war of aggression, it shows no concern for the welfare of civilians in the areas it temporarily occupies. Russia has an obligation to facilitate full, safe, rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief for all civilians in need. It should also immediately seize torture, sexual violence, arbitrary detentions of civilians, as reported by the United Nations.”
18. Wide shot, end of Council session
At a UN Security Council meeting today (10 Sep) senior UN officials and diplomats called for an end to the war in Ukraine, citing increasing humanitarian needs and the continued suffering of civilians.
Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, highlighted the displacement of civilians and the relocation of hospitals in frontline regions like Donetsk. “Almost half the residents of a frontline town in the Donetsk region have evacuated in the last two weeks,” Msuya said, adding that health services were now scarce.
Msuya also emphasized the broader impact of the war, noting significant civilian casualties and infrastructure damage in cities like Dnipro, Kyiv, and Lviv. “This war has gone on far too long... Protecting civilians, and ultimately ending this war, is a matter of will,” she stressed.
US ambassador Robert A. Wood warned of new U.S. sanctions against Iran over its transfer of ballistic missiles to Russia. “Russia has now received these missiles and will likely use them within weeks in Ukraine,” Wood said.
Russian envoy Vasily Nebenzya said recent Russian military strikes were “impressive and effective” suggesting that Western military personnel had been among the casualties.
Ukraine's representative, Sergiy Kyslytsya, called for international action against what he described as Russia's “missile terror.” Kyslytsya said, “Putin’s threats of red lines no longer work.”
The European Union's Stavros Lambrinidis joined calls for an end to Russian aggression, urging Russia to allow unimpeded humanitarian access to affected areas and to end abuses against civilians.
