Ukraine Crisis: OCHA Expresses Concern for Civilians in Cut-Off Areas

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Published Jun 22, 2024

Remarks by Ms. Lisa Doughten, OCHA's Director of Financing and Partnerships Division for the office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, on behalf of Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mr. Martin Griffiths, on the Maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine - Security Council, 9570th meeting.

The Director of the Financing and Partnerships Division at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Lisa Doughten, said, “we continue to face significant obstacles to reaching everyone in need. One of the most significant challenges remains the lack of humanitarian access to the parts of Donetska, Khersonska, Luhanska and Zaporizka oblasts occupied by the Russian Federation.”

As hostilities continue to escalate, she said, “we are deeply concerned about the fate of the civilians in these territories whom we are unable to reach at scale” and stressed that “the consequences for an estimated 1.5 million people in need of life-saving assistance there are unthinkable.”