WFP / UKRAINE HUNGER
22-Feb-2023
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One year since February 24, 2022, the war in Ukraine continues to inflict untold suffering on civilians, to displace families, and to disrupt supply chains and food production. WFP
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STORY: WFP / UKRAINE HUNGER
TRT: 03:07
SOURCE: WFP / UKRAINE GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / UKRAINIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2023, DONETSK OBLAST / 15 FEBRUARY 2023, SLOVIANSK / 21 FEBRUARY 2023, KIYIV / 16 FEBRUARY 2023, MYKOLAIV OBLAST / 14-16 AUGUST 2022 YUZHNY (PIVDENNYI) PORT, ODESA, UKRAINE
08 FEBRUARY 2023, GAMBELLA / 02 FEBRUARY 2022, SOMALI REGION / 30 MARCH 2022, AMHARA / 09 SEPTEMBER 2022 ADAMA, ETHIOPIA
TRT: 03:07
SOURCE: WFP / UKRAINE GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / UKRAINIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2023, DONETSK OBLAST / 15 FEBRUARY 2023, SLOVIANSK / 21 FEBRUARY 2023, KIYIV / 16 FEBRUARY 2023, MYKOLAIV OBLAST / 14-16 AUGUST 2022 YUZHNY (PIVDENNYI) PORT, ODESA, UKRAINE
08 FEBRUARY 2023, GAMBELLA / 02 FEBRUARY 2022, SOMALI REGION / 30 MARCH 2022, AMHARA / 09 SEPTEMBER 2022 ADAMA, ETHIOPIA
SHOTLIST
15 FEBRUARY 2023, DONETSK OBLAST, UKRAINE
1. Travelling shot, WFP vehicles cross an abandoned checkpoint on the road to Sloviansk, close to the frontline
2. Wide shot, destroyed farmhouse
15 FEBRUARY 2023, SLOVIANSK, UKRAINE
3. Various shots, people at a WFP distribution point waiting to receive monthly rations
Shot:
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Olena Efimenko, Sloviansk Resident
“Of course, the situation is hard. We are pensioners and the pension is low. We have to spend it all on firewood for heating.”
5. Wide shot, people leaving distribution point with WFP food rations
21 FEBRUARY 2023, KIYIV, UKRAINE
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Hollingworth, Ukraine Country Director World Food Programme (WFP):
“It’s 12 months since this war began here in Ukraine and its affecting millions of people. 8 million seeking refuge across Europe, 5 million displaced here inside the country. And what are we doing about it? We are providing food assistance to 3 million people every single month consistently with food and with cash assistance.”
16 FEBRUARY 2023, MYKOLAIV OBLAST, UKRAINE
7. Various shots, farm with DANGER – MINES signs
8. Various shots, Yuriy Mykolayovych Hrinenko leaving his warehouse
9. Close up, broken glass
10. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Yuriy Mykolayovych Hrinenko, Farmer:
“Before the war, we harvested about a thousand tons of grain and produced about 200-250 thousand tons of cooking oil. This was before the war. What will happen now in 2023, we don’t know, we don't even know where to start. The fields are mined, the land was near the frontline, there were many missile attacks.”
11. Various shots, Yuriy looks at the ruins of his warehouse after it was hit by numerous missile attacks
FILE - 02 FEBRUARY 2022, SOMALI REGION, ETHIOPIA
12. Various shots, drought-stricken Adadle district, dust storms, dead cattle and people who are forced to walk great distances through the dry land to feed their cattle herds
FILE - 30 MARCH 2022, AMHARA, ETHIOPIA
13. Various shots, mothers and children at a nutrition screening point, being tested for malnutrition where expansion of the conflict in neighbouring Tigray has causing displacement, hunger and malnutrition
21 FEBRUARY 2023, KIYIV, UKRAINE
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Hollingworth, Ukraine Country Director World Food Programme (WFP):
“The war here has had a massive ripple effect around the world because of food inflation, food accessibility, food unavailability. But thanks to the Black Sea Grain Initiative, since August last year we’ve managed to get 16 vessels of wheat outside of this country - That’s nearly half a million metric tons of food.”
FILE - UKRAINE GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE - 14-16 AUGUST 2022 YUZHNY (PIVDENNYI) PORT, ODESA, UKRAINE
15. Various shots, MV Brave Commander being loaded with 23,000metric tons of wheat and leaving Ukraine for Djibouti, where it was offloaded and transported by land to Ethiopia
FILE - 09 SEPTEMBER 2022 ADAMA, ETHIOPIA
16. Wheat transported by MV Brave Commander being offloaded from trucks and stored in a warehouse near Addis Ababa, for further distribution around the country
08 FEBRUARY 2023, GAMBELLA, ETHIOPIA
17. Various shots, people at a WFP distribution and returning home with bags of wheat. The wheat distributed here comes from Ukraine
1. Travelling shot, WFP vehicles cross an abandoned checkpoint on the road to Sloviansk, close to the frontline
2. Wide shot, destroyed farmhouse
15 FEBRUARY 2023, SLOVIANSK, UKRAINE
3. Various shots, people at a WFP distribution point waiting to receive monthly rations
Shot:
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Olena Efimenko, Sloviansk Resident
“Of course, the situation is hard. We are pensioners and the pension is low. We have to spend it all on firewood for heating.”
5. Wide shot, people leaving distribution point with WFP food rations
21 FEBRUARY 2023, KIYIV, UKRAINE
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Hollingworth, Ukraine Country Director World Food Programme (WFP):
“It’s 12 months since this war began here in Ukraine and its affecting millions of people. 8 million seeking refuge across Europe, 5 million displaced here inside the country. And what are we doing about it? We are providing food assistance to 3 million people every single month consistently with food and with cash assistance.”
16 FEBRUARY 2023, MYKOLAIV OBLAST, UKRAINE
7. Various shots, farm with DANGER – MINES signs
8. Various shots, Yuriy Mykolayovych Hrinenko leaving his warehouse
9. Close up, broken glass
10. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Yuriy Mykolayovych Hrinenko, Farmer:
“Before the war, we harvested about a thousand tons of grain and produced about 200-250 thousand tons of cooking oil. This was before the war. What will happen now in 2023, we don’t know, we don't even know where to start. The fields are mined, the land was near the frontline, there were many missile attacks.”
11. Various shots, Yuriy looks at the ruins of his warehouse after it was hit by numerous missile attacks
FILE - 02 FEBRUARY 2022, SOMALI REGION, ETHIOPIA
12. Various shots, drought-stricken Adadle district, dust storms, dead cattle and people who are forced to walk great distances through the dry land to feed their cattle herds
FILE - 30 MARCH 2022, AMHARA, ETHIOPIA
13. Various shots, mothers and children at a nutrition screening point, being tested for malnutrition where expansion of the conflict in neighbouring Tigray has causing displacement, hunger and malnutrition
21 FEBRUARY 2023, KIYIV, UKRAINE
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Hollingworth, Ukraine Country Director World Food Programme (WFP):
“The war here has had a massive ripple effect around the world because of food inflation, food accessibility, food unavailability. But thanks to the Black Sea Grain Initiative, since August last year we’ve managed to get 16 vessels of wheat outside of this country - That’s nearly half a million metric tons of food.”
FILE - UKRAINE GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE - 14-16 AUGUST 2022 YUZHNY (PIVDENNYI) PORT, ODESA, UKRAINE
15. Various shots, MV Brave Commander being loaded with 23,000metric tons of wheat and leaving Ukraine for Djibouti, where it was offloaded and transported by land to Ethiopia
FILE - 09 SEPTEMBER 2022 ADAMA, ETHIOPIA
16. Wheat transported by MV Brave Commander being offloaded from trucks and stored in a warehouse near Addis Ababa, for further distribution around the country
08 FEBRUARY 2023, GAMBELLA, ETHIOPIA
17. Various shots, people at a WFP distribution and returning home with bags of wheat. The wheat distributed here comes from Ukraine
STORYLINE
One year since February 24, 2022, the war in Ukraine continues to inflict untold suffering on civilians, to displace families, and to disrupt supply chains and food production.
1 in 3 families (11 million people) in Ukraine are estimated to be food insecure - rising to one in two in worst-affected areas of the East and South. Frontline areas and areas recently retaken by Ukraine face particularly dire conditions, with severe damage to infrastructure, disruption of basic services (electricity, gas, water), and no functioning markets and banks.
SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Olena Efimenko, Sloviansk Resident
“Of course, the situation is hard. We are pensioners and the pension is low. We have to spend it all on firewood for heating.”
The war continues to disrupt food production and supply chains inside the country, making access to food unreliable in many areas of the East and South. Nationwide, food prices are up 22 percent from last year, and 26 percent of Ukraine’s agricultural land cannot be sown.
SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Hollingworth, Ukraine Country Director World Food Programme (WFP):
“It’s 12 months since this war began here in Ukraine and its affecting millions of people. 8 million seeking refuge across Europe, 5 million displaced here inside the country. And what are we doing about it? We are providing food assistance to 3 million people every single month consistently with food and with cash assistance.”
Many farms in eastern Ukraine are at a standstill, with bombed infrastructure, mined fields and soaring fuel and fertilizer prices. Yuriy Mykolayovych Hrinenko leaves his warehouse. He has checked some of his fields for mines himself and continues to farm what he can, but with all the damage, he has little hope he will be able to rebuild his business even after the war is over.
SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Yuriy Mykolayovych Hrinenko, Farmer:
“Before the war, we harvested about a thousand tons of grain and produced about 200-250 thousand tons of cooking oil. This was before the war. What will happen now in 2023, we don’t know, we don't even know where to start. The fields are mined, the land was near the frontline, there were many missile attacks.”
The World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed food and cash assistance equivalent to 1.3 billion meals to families in Ukraine displaced and affected by the war, partnering directly with local responders.
Each month WFP supports around 3 million people with food, cash or vouchers, prioritizing cash assistance wherever there is reliable access to banks and food. We have distributed more than US$400 million in cash since March 2022.
85 percent of WFP’s food assistance is distributed in areas near the frontlines. More than 26 interagency convoys have brought food and other essentials to hard-to-reach areas to date, including to communities living near Soledar and Bakhmut. However, requests sent from UN agencies including WFP to the Russian Federation to secure humanitarian access to areas under its control have so far been denied.
The deterioration of global food security is caused by multiple factors with the impact of the Ukraine crisis, as well as the impact on fuel and fertiliser prices, adding further pressure. While global food prices have stabilized somewhat in recent months, they are still at a 10-year high.
Overall, food prices are up by at least 15 percent in 70 countries while inflation is running into triple digits in Lebanon, Sudan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Hollingworth, Ukraine Country Director World Food Programme (WFP):
“The war here has had a massive ripple effect around the world because of food inflation, food accessibility, food unavailability. But thanks to the Black Sea Grain Initiative, since August last year we’ve managed to get 16 vessels of wheat outside of this country - That’s nearly half a million metric tons of food.”
The Black Sea Grain Initiative opened up a maritime humanitarian corridor to export food commodities from Ukraine and it is a crucial part of the global response to meeting the needs of the world’s hungry.
There can be no solution to the global food crisis without ensuring full global access to Ukrainian food and Russian food and fertiliser. Since the signing of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, WFP has transported more than 481,000 mt of wheat from Ukrainian ports. Sixteen WFP-chartered vessels have sailed under the initiative in support of WFP operations in Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia. Other WFP-chartered vessels are involved in transporting the wheat flour onwards once it has been milled into flour in Turkey.
The Black Sea Grain Initiative is due to expire in March and It is essential that it is extended to protect the world’s most vulnerable people.
1 in 3 families (11 million people) in Ukraine are estimated to be food insecure - rising to one in two in worst-affected areas of the East and South. Frontline areas and areas recently retaken by Ukraine face particularly dire conditions, with severe damage to infrastructure, disruption of basic services (electricity, gas, water), and no functioning markets and banks.
SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Olena Efimenko, Sloviansk Resident
“Of course, the situation is hard. We are pensioners and the pension is low. We have to spend it all on firewood for heating.”
The war continues to disrupt food production and supply chains inside the country, making access to food unreliable in many areas of the East and South. Nationwide, food prices are up 22 percent from last year, and 26 percent of Ukraine’s agricultural land cannot be sown.
SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Hollingworth, Ukraine Country Director World Food Programme (WFP):
“It’s 12 months since this war began here in Ukraine and its affecting millions of people. 8 million seeking refuge across Europe, 5 million displaced here inside the country. And what are we doing about it? We are providing food assistance to 3 million people every single month consistently with food and with cash assistance.”
Many farms in eastern Ukraine are at a standstill, with bombed infrastructure, mined fields and soaring fuel and fertilizer prices. Yuriy Mykolayovych Hrinenko leaves his warehouse. He has checked some of his fields for mines himself and continues to farm what he can, but with all the damage, he has little hope he will be able to rebuild his business even after the war is over.
SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Yuriy Mykolayovych Hrinenko, Farmer:
“Before the war, we harvested about a thousand tons of grain and produced about 200-250 thousand tons of cooking oil. This was before the war. What will happen now in 2023, we don’t know, we don't even know where to start. The fields are mined, the land was near the frontline, there were many missile attacks.”
The World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed food and cash assistance equivalent to 1.3 billion meals to families in Ukraine displaced and affected by the war, partnering directly with local responders.
Each month WFP supports around 3 million people with food, cash or vouchers, prioritizing cash assistance wherever there is reliable access to banks and food. We have distributed more than US$400 million in cash since March 2022.
85 percent of WFP’s food assistance is distributed in areas near the frontlines. More than 26 interagency convoys have brought food and other essentials to hard-to-reach areas to date, including to communities living near Soledar and Bakhmut. However, requests sent from UN agencies including WFP to the Russian Federation to secure humanitarian access to areas under its control have so far been denied.
The deterioration of global food security is caused by multiple factors with the impact of the Ukraine crisis, as well as the impact on fuel and fertiliser prices, adding further pressure. While global food prices have stabilized somewhat in recent months, they are still at a 10-year high.
Overall, food prices are up by at least 15 percent in 70 countries while inflation is running into triple digits in Lebanon, Sudan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Hollingworth, Ukraine Country Director World Food Programme (WFP):
“The war here has had a massive ripple effect around the world because of food inflation, food accessibility, food unavailability. But thanks to the Black Sea Grain Initiative, since August last year we’ve managed to get 16 vessels of wheat outside of this country - That’s nearly half a million metric tons of food.”
The Black Sea Grain Initiative opened up a maritime humanitarian corridor to export food commodities from Ukraine and it is a crucial part of the global response to meeting the needs of the world’s hungry.
There can be no solution to the global food crisis without ensuring full global access to Ukrainian food and Russian food and fertiliser. Since the signing of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, WFP has transported more than 481,000 mt of wheat from Ukrainian ports. Sixteen WFP-chartered vessels have sailed under the initiative in support of WFP operations in Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia. Other WFP-chartered vessels are involved in transporting the wheat flour onwards once it has been milled into flour in Turkey.
The Black Sea Grain Initiative is due to expire in March and It is essential that it is extended to protect the world’s most vulnerable people.
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