Ukraine - Fletcher Kharkiv visit - 14 January 2025
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STORY: OCHA / UKRAINE FLETCHER
TRT: 08:25
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: UKRAINIAN / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 14 JANUARY 2025, VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE SHOTLIST FOR DETAILS
Shotlist
14 JANUARY 2025, SHEVCHENKOVE, KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE
1. Various shots, UN convoy with supplies approaching Shevchenkove, approximately 30 kms from the front line
2. Various shots, off-loading operations headed by USG Fletcher on site
3. Wide shot, offloading operations
4. Wide shot, USG Fletcher observes the arrival of a “social bus” run by NGO Proliska with support from the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund. The project serves community near the front line, providing free social transportation to the nearest settlements with available services.
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian/Ukrainian) Raisa, Ukrainian retiree:
“We need to go to get some cash, go to a pharmacy and visit the Pension Fund. Those are the things we need to take care of. We can’t do it in one trip though — there are queues everywhere. And they are rushing us up, saying: “Hurry up, the road is difficult.” As for other stuff, we need to buy some bread as we do not have a store anymore. Doctors only came in the summer — they say, “with all the shelling, we are scared to come.” But what can we do? We need medicines, and our pensions are small.”
6. Close up, sign reading “social transportation”
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Evgeny Kaplin, Proliska Country Director:
“To date, the project covers 600 villages across nine regions of Ukraine, where residents face the similar challenge of being isolated from social and administrative services. Thanks to this project, around 300,000 people can now access community centres, where they can reach ATMs, shops, grocery stores, pharmacies, and medical facilities.”
8. Various shots, UN delegation at arrival site of the “social bus”
14 JANUARY 2025, KUPIANSK TOWN, UKRAINE
9. Tracking shot, destruction
10. Wide shot, USG Fletcher and Andrii Kanashevych, Head of Kupianskyi District, walking in Kupiansk Town
11. Wide shot, Andrii Kanashevych showing the front line to USG Fletcher
12. Various shots, USG Fletcher with Oleh Synegubov, Governor of the Kharkiv Region and Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
13. Various shots, USG Fletcher and Svitlana, whose apartment was damaged by shelling on 30 August 2024
14. Wide shot, destruction in Svitlana’s apartment
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“It’s extraordinary to hear the stories of the residents of this apartment block behind me. I've been on the 10th floor, the third floor, amid the charred remains of their apartments, but heard them talking about how they want to renovate those apartments. They want to rebuild their life. This is all they have. It's all they've worked for throughout their lives. And it's a story today, really, of resilience. Of people who are determined and who are courageous. And they determined to carry on in the face of huge displacement and loss and despair. They're rebuilding their lives. And we have to show you that same courage. I saw it from the humanitarian responders who, despite their vehicles being attacked, are heading towards the front lines of this war in order to help the survivors of this war. Their courage is extraordinary. We have to show the same resilience, the same courage. We have to be here with these people as they rebuild their lives.”
16. Various shots, USG Fletcher meeting with local NGOs engaged in humanitarian response in the Kharkiv Region
Storyline
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, visited the Kharkiv Region today (14 Jan.) He traveled to the village of Shevchenkove, which is about 30 kilometers from the front lines, and also the town of Kupiansk, which is on the front line.
At a press conference with the Governor of the Kharkiv Region and as well joined by his colleague the High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, Mr. Fletcher underscored the humanitarian community’s sustained commitment to stay and deliver for people as the war rages on around them.