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U.N. envoy visits sites in Ukraine as agency leaders prepare response plan launch
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Under‑Secretary‑General Tom Fletcher visited areas affected by recent strikes and displacement; Fletcher and UNHCR head Filippo Grandi will launch the 2025 humanitarian and refugee response plan for Ukraine from Kyiv.
The United Nations said Monday that Under‑Secretary‑General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher is in Ukraine meeting people affected by hostilities and assessing humanitarian needs ahead of a joint launch of the humanitarian and refugee response plan for 2025.
Dujarric said Fletcher visited sites where a missile recently struck a medical clinic, visited a newly built underground school that will educate about 1,000 children daily and met displaced people in collective sites in Dnipro. He later travelled to front-line areas in Donetsk and commended the work of local first responders and non‑governmental organizations supporting communities that remain in place.
Fletcher is scheduled to join Filippo Grandi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, to launch this year's humanitarian and refugee response plan for Ukraine. "Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Grandi will jointly speak to the press, to the press from Kyiv, just before the plan is launched," the spokesperson said. The launch is planned to take place in the region, and U.N. leaders will brief the press from Kyiv ahead of the formal rollout of the response plan.
Dujarric said the U.N. will continue to engage Ukrainian authorities and humanitarian partners to coordinate assistance as security and logistics permit. No new funding pledges tied to the plan were announced at the briefing.
