UN / UKRAINE UPDATE

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16-Jan-2023 00:02:37
Secretary-General António Guterres condemned air strikes that killed and injured dozens of civilians during what spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay called “a grim weekend” for civilians in Ukraine. UNIFEED

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DATELINE: 16 JANUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters

16 JANUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay at the podium
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephanie Tremblay, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Civilians across the country faced a grim weekend, with air strikes having killed and injured dozens of civilians. Homes, schools and hospitals were also damaged in different parts of the country. A strike hit a residential building in Dnipro on Saturday evening, in one of the deadliest attacks in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion last February. The Secretary-General condemned this attack saying that was another example of a suspected violation of the laws of war.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephanie Tremblay, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“According to our colleagues from the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, at least 40 civilians, including three children, were killed. At least 75 people, 15 of them children, were injured, while in their homes. These numbers are expected to rise even further, as search and rescue operations continue by local authorities right now. More than 1,000 people have been made homeless as a result of the attack, according to our humanitarian colleagues on the ground.”
7. Wide shot, Tremblay at the podium
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephanie Tremblay, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“This was not the only attack impacting civilians in Ukraine over the weekend. In Kherson, the premises hosting the Ukrainian Red Cross Society were hit during shelling in the city yesterday. Although no one was injured, the organization lost critical supplies. Our colleagues remind everyone that international humanitarian law is clear: humanitarian workers and facilities are protected, and constant efforts must be made to spare them. A hospital, also protected under international humanitarian law, was hit in the city. In Kryviy Rih, in the Dnipro region, local authorities informed that more than 50 homes, three schools, two kindergartens were damaged yesterday alone. Further east, the situation remains critical, with scores of civilians killed and injured on both sides of the front line in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. In the parts of Donetsk under the temporary control of the Russian Federation, dozens of homes were damaged, and at least two health centres and several ambulances were also hit during shelling reported over the weekend, according to Russian-installed authorities there.”
9. Wide shot, end of briefing

STORYLINE:

Secretary-General António Guterres today (16 Jan) condemned air strikes that killed and injured dozens of civilians during what spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay called “a grim weekend” for civilians in Ukraine.

Tremblay said, homes, schools and hospitals were damaged in different parts of the country and noted that “a strike hit a residential building in Dnipro on Saturday evening, in one of the deadliest attacks in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion last February.”

The spokesperson said, “at least 40 civilians, including three children, were killed. At least 75 people, 15 of them children, were injured, while in their homes. These numbers are expected to rise even further, as search and rescue operations continue by local authorities right now. More than 1,000 people have been made homeless as a result of the attack, according to our humanitarian colleagues on the ground.”

She told journalists in New York that “this was not the only attack impacting civilians in Ukraine over the weekend,” adding that in Kherson, “the premises hosting the Ukrainian Red Cross Society were hit during shelling in the city yesterday.”

A hospital was also hit, Tremblay said, and in In Kryviy Rih, in the Dnipro region, “more than 50 homes, three schools, two kindergartens were damaged yesterday alone.”

Further east, she continued, “scores of civilians” were killed and injured “on both sides of the front line in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.”

In the parts of Donetsk, under the temporary control of the Russian Federation, the spokesperson said, “dozens of homes were damaged, and at least two health centres and several ambulances were also hit during shelling reported over the weekend, according to Russian-installed authorities there.”

The Secretary-General condemned the in Dnipro attack saying that it was “another example of a suspected violation of the laws of war.”
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