UN refugee agency accused over response to Ukraine war
Leading Ukrainian politicians have accused the UN’s refugee agency of being unprepared for the war and withdrawing staff from hotspots, while the International Committee of the Red Cross was said to be “impotent” in protecting refugees.
Sadovyi’s deputy, Serhiy Kiral, said he had been surprised when officials in the UNHCR described their own staff as “refugees” during conversations with him in the early stage of the conflict. A spokesperson for the UNHCR said it had moved staff from Mariupol, Severodonetsk and the capital, Kyiv, to safer areas of the country but that its overall staffing levels in the country had increased.
A spokesperson for the ICRC said some staff with young families had left the country but it had about 80 more people in the country than before.humanitarian corridorsOnly one such corridor has been successfully organised, between the northern cities of Sumy to Lubny, leading Ukraine’s deputy prime minister to describe the organisation as “impotent” in an interview in Kyiv.
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