GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations agencies will next week ask for $3.1 billion to finance aid to Ukraine this year, a senior humanitarian official official told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday.
The comment – made by Edem Wosorno, director of the Operations and Advocacy Division for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) – comes as OCHA and the U.N. refugee agency prepare to launch their response plans for Ukraine on Jan. 15.
OCHA has said that more than 14.6 million people, or 40% of Ukraine’s population, will require humanitarian assistance this year due to Russia’s full-scale invasion. The conflict has also forced some 6.3 million people to flee abroad.
(Reporting by Jonathan Landay in Washington and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber in Geneva; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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