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.
Iryna Vereshchuk, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, said the major humanitarian organisations appeared “disoriented” by the conflict. The mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi, claimed they initially just watched “with concern over wine and coffee”.
