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STORY: UN / ZAPORIZHZHIA ATTACK
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 09 JANUARY 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Tilt up, exterior UN headquarters
09 JANUARY 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric at the dais
3. Med shot, reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs condemns yesterday’s deadly attack in Zaporizhzhia City. Authorities reported dozens of casualties when a glide bomb struck vehicles, a tram and an industrial facility. The Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine and Resident Coordinator, Matthias Schmale, said the attack marked yet again the intolerable killing and injuring of civilians in the country.
Humanitarian partners and first responders in Zaporizhzhia mobilized emergency assistance, including first aid. Humanitarian workers also helped transport the injured to hospital, clear debris, and provide psychological assistance to people impacted by the attack. Hostilities in other front-line areas of southern and eastern Ukraine yesterday also damaged homes and energy infrastructure, further impeding people’s access to basic services, including in the Dnipro and Kherson regions.”
5. Wide shot, end of presser
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs today (9 Jan) condemned Wednesday’s deadly attack in Zaporizhzhia City, United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters in New York.
Dujarric said, “authorities reported dozens of casualties when a glide bomb struck vehicles, a tram and an industrial facility.”
Quoting the Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine and Resident Coordinator, Matthias Schmale, he said “the attack marked yet again the intolerable killing and injuring of civilians in the country.”
Dujarric said, humanitarian partners and first responders in Zaporizhzhia had mobilized emergency assistance, including first aid and humanitarian workers also “helped transport the injured to hospital, clear debris, and provide psychological assistance to people impacted by the attack.”
Hostilities in other front-line areas of southern and eastern Ukraine, the spokesperson continued, “yesterday also damaged homes and energy infrastructure, further impeding people’s access to basic services, including in the Dnipro and Kherson regions.”
