no water. we have mothers who don t even have formula or diapers for their kids. we have i mean our hotline is receiving calls for people wanting safety, for people in psychological distress. so the needs are huge, and for the icrc, it s very important to start responding. we started in mariupol and kyiv. mariupol, we visited shelters yesterday to distribute some food and essential hygiene items and water for more than 4,000 disp displaced people. in kyiv, we re giving medical equipment to hospitals much needed for trauma surgery, burns, gunshot wounds, et cetera. but it s very important also, security permitting, to be able to expand. we re already working in several locations in the east, but now that the conflict has spread, it s very important that humanitarian organizations like the icrc are given are
come off of the helicopter. excuse me. he got here to south korea yesterday, sunday, for easter. the plan was on the down low, weather permit abouting and security permitting, for him to do exactly what he s doing now, and so we re waiting for the vice president to come out and to go to the first of several briefings and then to go up to the demilitarized zone to get a firsthand look at what is going on there and to be able to see north korea with his own two eyes, which is something that you can do at the dmz, ana. i don t know if you can hear me, but if you can i m curious how this came about. this wasn t on the agenda, was it? it wasn t on his official schedule, but we certainly got some strong hints that this is what they were hoping to do. they said he was going to take a cultural the visit at this time in his schedule, and there was