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STORY: UNHCR / UKRAINE FAMILIES STRUGGLING
TRT: 4:47
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 04 AND 05 NOVEMBER 2024, KHARKIV, KYIV, ZAKARPATTIA, UKRAINE / 12 NOVEMBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
12 NOVEMBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Med shot, press briefing room
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly T. Clements, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees:
“It is a grim reminder that the war continues and continues with a vengeance with civilians caught in the middle. We have seen, of course, 3.7 million internally displaced people and now, 6.75 million refugees, primarily in Europe and 14.6 million people in need inside the country. The destruction, the level of destruction, the level of displacement, the constant air alerts, and now the increased number of evacuations. In fact, 150,000 just in the last two months means that there are a number of civilians that are in great need with a war that continues.”
3. Wide shot, press briefing room
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly T. Clements, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees:
“Our trip last week coincided with the first snowfall. It was already getting quite cold and this has been something that, of course we're quite concerned about with 65% of the energy infrastructure impacted and huge concerns that there will be another catastrophic hit on energy as Ukraine faces the coldest months. We see in operation right now, where there is a it's basically two pronged. In the West, we're looking at communities that are hosting large numbers of internally displaced, some of them displaced more than once and and looking at recovery and rebuilding in terms of being able to restart their lives and, of course, an active emergency response in the east and other parts of the country.”
5. Wide shot, press briefing room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly T. Clements, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees:
“Funding remains a huge issue not just for UNHCR but other humanitarian organisations. Currently, our refugee response plan is $1.1 billion and just over half of it has been met. But we're almost to the end of the year, which means large numbers of large parts of our program will not be implemented. And inside the country, a humanitarian response plan that has just over $3 billion and again, with not much more support than that from the international community. So the humanitarian needs continue to be quite at a high level and we're going into the most difficult part of the year with no signs of the war abating.”
7. Various shots, press briefing room
04 AND 05 NOVEMBER 2024, KHARKIV, UKRAINE
8. Various shots, Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees visiting Saltivka neighbourhood in Kharkiv. Saltivka experienced intense shelling in the early days of the full-scale invasion. It is largely empty nowadays and still experiences attacks with aerial bombs and balistic missiles fired from Russian Federation territory
9. Various shots, Pyatyhorskyi Collective Site in Kharkiv and interaction with an elderly Ukrainian IDP woman, evacuated from a war affected area
10. Various shots, Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees visiting Kharkiv underground metro school during school classes
11. Various shots, Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees visiting Svii multi-sector hub in Kharkiv where she met and spoke to Ukrainian IDPs evacuated from war affected areas in the east of Ukraine
04 AND 05 NOVEMBER 2024, KYIV, UKRAINE
12. Various shots, Kyiv Oblast Borodianka, DHC visiting the home of a Luidmila and Oleksandr Krylovy, whose house was heavily damaged during fighting in the area. UNHCR helped by providing reconstruction materials for the roof of the house
13. Various shots, Kachaly village, Kyiv Oblast. DHC observes a distribution of rapid thermal kits as part of UNHCR’s 2024-2025 winterization response The kit is designed for seasonal insulation of old, non-energy-efficient windows and to improve the efficiency of heating radiators, and includes materials used by families to insulate their homes—such as reflective insulation screens, transparent plastic sheets, foam strips, and building tape
Kelly T. Clements, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees urged solidarity with innocent victims of full-scale war on Ukraine.
Next week marks 1,000 days since the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the needs of civilians are growing amid intense attacks and as another grueling winter season sets in. Russia’s destruction of energy infrastructure has led to an overall loss of 65 per cent of energy generation capacity in recent months, and the attacks continue, disrupting electricity, heating and water supplies.
The deepening emotional toll on innocent people became clear during my visit to the country last week; the intense attacks on critical infrastructure and civilian sites, and constant air-raid warnings are exacting a grave toll on physical and mental health.
Since August, some 170,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the east, with many evacuated from the areas experiencing hostilities, joining the nearly 4 million who remain displaced within Ukraine, and 6.7 million more who have sought refuge outside the country. This includes 400,000 new refugees who crossed into Europe from the beginning of 2024 to August 2024 to seek safety from the war and bombs.
