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STORY: UKRAINE / HUMANITARIAN APPEAL
TRT: 03:52
SOURCE: UNTV CH / OCHA / UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA AND UNHCR FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 JANUARY 2025 - KYIV, UKRAINE / 15 JANUARY 2025, BILOPILIA, KRAINE /
UNHCR - 15 JANUARY 2025, BILOPILIA, UKRAINE
1. Wide shot, lady with cane walking in frontline town
2. Wide shot, factory chimney emitting smoke
16 JANUARY 2025 - KYIV, UKRAINE
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
“Our ask, as you'll see of the world, is for 2.6 billion dollars to fund this campaign and to help us to reach six million people.”
UNHCR, 15 JANUARY 2025, BILOPILIA, UKRAINE
4. Med shot, UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi meeting locals
3. Close up, Grandi meeting locals
16 JANUARY 2025 - KYIV, UKRAINE
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“The objective of course, is not to make sure that these people are refugees forever, the objective is for this to create the conditions for these people to return to Ukraine. This is what Ukraine needs, and this is what the majority of the refugees want.”
OCHA - 14 JANUARY 2025, SHEVCHENKOVE, KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE
5. Wide shot, UN World Food Programme (WFP) convoy approximately 30 kilometres from the front line
6. Med shot, WFP truck reversing to depot
7. Med shot, aid workers offloading supplies at a Ukrainian depot
16 JANUARY 2025 - KYIV, UKRAINE
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthias Schmale, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, United Nations:
“Inevitably, a big part of the needs are along the frontline and we are supporting in particular people who have chosen to stay near the frontline and amongst those, particularly people with disabilities and older people who find it difficult to move.”
OCHA - 14 JANUARY 2025, SHEVCHENKOVE, KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE
9. Med shot, UN Emergency Relief Chief Tom Fletcher and UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in 10. Ukraine, Matthias Schmale, accompanying the UN aid convoy
11. Med shot, Fletcher at a Ukrainian food depot
16 JANUARY 2025 - KYIV, UKRAINE
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
“We must not forget those Ukrainians who are in the occupied territories whose needs are extreme. And we must continue to be creative and brave about getting our support to those who most need it.”
OCHA - 14 JANUARY 2025, KUPIANSK TOWN, UKRAINE
13. Tracking shot, destruction
16 JANUARY 2025 - KYIV, UKRAINE
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“Almost everybody has no - or very few people - have access to heating in the bitter cold. You know, I have observed all these years the conflict evolved, but I have to say this targeting by the Russian Federation of energy infrastructure, which is of course, affecting civilian lives directly, is something that has to stop.”
OCHA - 14 JANUARY 2025, KUPIANSK TOWN, UKRAINE
15. Wide shot, Fletcher with Andrii Kanashevych, Head of Kupianskyi District, walking with Schmale
16 JANUARY 2025 - KYIV, UKRAINE
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
“The Ukrainian people have shown incredible courage over these years. And we have to respond by showing a real, genuine, sustained international engagement, we have to respond with heart. And when I say sustained, I mean that we will be here with the Ukrainian people for as long as it takes to meet these needs and to support them in this moment.”
OCHA - 14 JANUARY 2025, KUPIANSK TOWN, UKRAINE
17. Med shot, Fletcher visiting a damaged apartment
18. Med shot, Fletcher in a damaged apartment belonging to Svitlana
19. Med shot, damage to Svitlana’s apartment
UNHCR, 15 JANUARY 2025, BILOPILIA, UKRAINE
20. Wide shot, Grandi and Fletcher meeting Ukrainian officials
21. Med shot, Grandi and Fletcher meeting Ukrainian officials
22. Med shot, Grandi and Fletcher meeting Ukrainian officials
The embattled people in Ukraine and those forced abroad need $3.32 billion in lifesaving and sustained humanitarian assistance to help them cope as a fourth year of war looms after Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, UN aid chiefs said today (16 Jan) in Kyiv.
In a joint appeal from Kyiv, the UN’s emergency relief chief Tom Fletcher and Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said that millions of civilians inside Ukraine and abroad depend on the international community’s support, amid ongoing Russian attacks.
“The Ukrainian people have shown incredible courage over these years, and we have to respond by showing a real, genuine, sustained international engagement, we have to respond with heart,” said Fletcher.
He said, “we will be here with the Ukrainian people for as long as it takes to meet these needs and to support them,” adding, “we must not forget those Ukrainians who are in the occupied territories whose needs are extreme. And we must continue to be creative and brave about getting our support to those who most need it.”
The appeals are designed to support critical assistance to some six million people inside Ukraine - where overall needs are more than twice that number - and abroad, where more than 6.8 million Ukrainian refugees live. Out of the overall appeal, $2.62 billion is designated for response teams inside the country, while UNHCR has requested $690 million in 2025 and $1.2 billion for 2025-2026 to assist governments hosting refugees in 11 countries.
“The objective, of course, is not to make sure that these people are refugees forever,” said Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. He said, “the objective is for this to create the conditions for these people to return to Ukraine. This is what Ukraine needs, and this is what the majority of the refugees want.”
Speaking to journalists on his sixth visit to Ukraine, the refugee agency chief highlighted the unrelenting impact of bomb blasts on the front line, day in, day out. Communities on the front line continue to suffer destruction and deprivation in the cold of winter, he said.
Grandi said, “here, Kyiv is a big city, but when you go out there in a small town, you see how people’s lives are completely devastated; almost everybody had to leave their houses. And almost everybody has no, or very few people have access to heating in the bitter cold. You know, I have observed all these years the conflict evolved, but I have to say this targeting by the Russian Federation of energy infrastructure, which is, of course, affecting civilian lives directly, is something that has to stop.”
Matthias Schmale, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, emphasized that national NGO partners and the UN continue to deliver aid and evacuate the most vulnerable individuals, wherever access allows: “Inevitably, a big part of the needs are along the frontline,” he said.
Schmale said, “we are supporting in particular people who have chosen to stay near the frontline and amongst those, particularly people with disabilities and older people who find it difficult to move.”
