On his drive to kyiv, the top UN leader made a stop along the way at a gas station in Wog, a municipality located about 150 kilometers from Lviv, as well as a second one in Zhytomyr, about 140 kilometers from kyiv.
António Guterres will not only see President Zelensky and his Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, but will also meet with staff from UN agencies to discuss “how to optimize humanitarian assistance to the people of Ukraine”, although for the time being no revealed which place he will visit on the ground.
There has been no communication between the UN and the Ukrainian government following Zelensky’s complaint that the UN chief executive visited Moscow first. The head of the Ukrainian government recalled that it was his country that was receiving the attack and considered that it was not fair that Guterres meet Putin first.
The OCHA spokesman explained to Efe that his trip to the two countries is “a peace mission.” The UN, he has said, works so that “the terror and horror in the areas that are being bombed end as soon as possible” and so that “humanitarian aid can reach the people who need it.”
“There are many parts of Ukraine that we cannot reach, for example Mariupol, or Kherson. It is urgent that an agreement be reached with humanitarian corridors and that the people who need it can be evacuated,” added the spokesman for the humanitarian branch. from the ONU.
“The war has caused an unimaginable number of deaths, displaced people and a level of human suffering. We have 25 percent of the population of Ukraine that needs humanitarian aid because of the war,” added Saviano Abreu.