On February 6, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Mariana Betsa held a meeting with Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), who is on a working visit to Ukraine.

Mariana Betsa expressed her gratitude to the UN system agencies for their consistent support of Ukraine in addressing the humanitarian consequences of Russian aggression. The diplomat emphasized that the humanitarian situation in Ukraine remains extremely grave and called on the international community to exert maximum effort to assist Ukrainians affected by Russia’s criminal actions.

"Due to incessant Russian shelling of civilian and power-generating infrastructure, the humanitarian situation in Ukraine remains dire. The frontline regions of our state, which you had the opportunity to visit during your trip, are suffering particularly severely. We must consolidate our efforts and scale up support and aid for all Ukrainians who currently find themselves in distress," the Deputy Minister stressed.

As part of her visit to Ukraine, Edem Wosornu visited the most affected areas of the Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Kharkiv regions. She also joined a UN humanitarian convoy and inspected a thermal power plant (TPP) damaged by a Russian strike, which allowed her to assess the true scale of the humanitarian crisis caused by the actions of the aggressor state.

For her part, Edem Wosornu reaffirmed the UN's solidarity with the Ukrainian people, shared information on the results of UN humanitarian activities in 2025, and detailed the priority steps for implementing the 2026 UN Humanitarian Response Plan.

In total, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, UN agencies have mobilized approximately 11 billion US dollars in humanitarian aid for millions of Ukrainian citizens, primarily in frontline regions.