Ukraine - Fletcher Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro visit - 13 January 2025

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STORY: OCHA / UKRAINE FLETCHER VISIT
TRT: 12:43
SOURCE: OCHA
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LANGUAGE: UKRAINIAN / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: PLEASE SEE SHOTLIST FOR DETAILS

Shotlist
12 JANUARY 2025, ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE

1. Med shot, Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher meets authorities, handshake with deputy Governor of the Zaporizhzhia Region Mykhailo Semikin
2. Med shot, UN delegation meeting with authorities, opposite to USG Fletcher, Ivan Fedorov, Governor of the Zaporizhzhia Region 
3. Med shot, destruction 
4. Med shot, USG Fletcher with Olena Zhuk, Head of Zaporizhzhia Region Council and Ivan Fedorov, Governor of the Zaporizhzhia Region, surveying damage at “Unimed” a medical facility impacted by a strike on 10 December 2024 that killed 11 and left 22 injured
5. Zoom in, memorial for victims of 10 December attack outside Unimed
6. Various shots, UN delegation and local authorities entering and surveying premises
7. Various shots, damage
8. Med shot, UN delegation and local authorities arriving at "Sichovy Collegium”, a newly built underground school with capacity for in-person learning for up to 1,000 students
9. Various shots, UN delegation meeting with parents of enrolled students in classroom

12 JANUARY 2025, DNIPRO, UKRAINE

10. Med shot, UN delegation arrival at Nauky 65 Collective Site, established in the first months after the full-scale invasion (April 2022) and able to host around 100 displaced people (generally 2-4 people per room). Most internally displaced people hosted here are from the Donetsk Region. 
11. Various shots, USG Fletcher with Lyubov, teacher displaced from a village near Lyman now in collective site 
12. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian)  Lyubov, displaced teacher from Donetsk Region:
“They have a modem and there is mobile internet. So, children regularly go online to study. The exception is when there is no electricity. It happens that sometimes, there is no power because of shelling.”
13. Med shot, USG Fletcher with Lyubov
14. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Lyubov, displaced teacher from Donetsk Region:
“We received support. All things that we have are from humanitarians. We left with nothing.”
15. Various shots, Lyubov’s room
16. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Lyubov, displaced teacher from Donetsk Region:
“We found a shell in the yard. When miners came, I showed them; they said that it was no longer active.  But the entire garden is covered in high grass, who know what else is there.”

13 JANUARY 2025, PAVLOHRAD, DNIPRO REGION

17. Various shots, buses arriving and departing at transit centre servicing displaced people
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“So, now we're here in Pavlohrad and, I've been visiting a reception center where the people who are being evacuated from the front lines are being looked after. They're being given shelter, a warm meal, getting access crucially to their documents. I've just been with Tamara, who's been waiting for her passport. Her house was destroyed. And earlier today, I was in Donetsk region, and I was there on the front line, as I saw people coming across the lines and being met by our humanitarian movement, by the people who are on the front lines of humanitarianism, helping those escaping from the war. And they move from there to here and then on to the Dnipro and to those more permanent locations where they can be housed and supported. And as a humanitarian movement, we have to be with them at every step in that process. But also we have to find the resources and the support from the international community. And that's why on Thursday we have the big launch of this year's Ukraine Humanitarian Needs Response Plan, and we'll be setting out what the need is and what the international community must do in response.”
19. Various shots, registration operations, supplies being unloaded, dormitory
20. Med shot, USG Fletcher in the dormitory with Tamara, recently displaced from near Prokrovsk
21. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Tamara, displaced teacher from Donetsk Region:
“The first rocket hit our yard on 6 September. It was half past six in the morning. I woke up and saw the windows being blown out. The house was small. My little country house. And these big projectiles were flying. It was scary. I saved one piece. It was so big. It hit by a water container there, my husband had put it there. It was so thick, iron. It was pierced with many holes.”

Storyline
The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Tom Fletcher, is in Ukraine 12-16 January 2024, meeting conflict-affected people and Ukrainian authorities, and engaging with humanitarian partners.

In Zaporizhzhia, Fletcher visited the site where a missile hit a medical clinic in December 2024, causing casualties and destroying the facility. He also met parents in an underground school.

In Dnipro city, Fletcher visited a collective centre for people displaced from the Donetsk region.

in the city of Pavlohrad, in Dnipro region, he saw how evacuees are receiving assistance from the moment they are collected near the frontline and further transported to a transit centre.