Ukraine - Coordination Meeting minutes, Kyiv, 4 June 2026

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1. Humanitarian Access – OCHA

• OCHA Access Team provided an overview of humanitarian access trends, noting that long-range attacks have been on the rise recently, with 3 major cities being regularly targeted: Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro.
• In the Northern region, security services of Ukraine announced increased screening procedures and more security checks along the border with Belarus as a response to potential threats and escalating rhetoric. The East remains to be the region with the most intense fighting, in Donetska, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkivska. In the South, drones continue to be the primary threat, including the attack on a UN mission in Kherson in mid-May.
• Partners were briefed about humanitarian movement being increasingly constrained by increased use and reach of FPV drones and related attack patterns, shrinking humanitarian space, including the incident in Dnipropetrovska, where an aid delivery mission was struck 23 km from the front line. Furthermore, increased strikes and direct hits were recorded on critical infrastructure and on 2 humanitarian warehouses end-May.
• Since the beginning of the year, OCHA recorded 124 cases of denial of humanitarian access; 18 cases of violence against humanitarian staff; 25 incidents with damage to humanitarian facilities; and 37 cases with damage to humanitarian assets.
• OCHA recently conducted another focus-group discussion as part of their access severity exercise, and is currently consolidating and analysing the information and data obtained. 
• A map was presented highlighting hromadas and oblasts where the access situation deteriorated over the past 6 months: Dnipropetrovka has seen quite a significant deterioration, as well as Chernihivksa, parts of Sumska and Kharkivska, and areas in Khersonska.
• Reminder: the Humanitarian Access Monitoring and Reporting Framework (AMRF) is OCHA’s online tool for humanitarian staff to report observed movement restrictions, incidents and ongoing hostilities impeding humanitarian operations, presence of mines, UXOs, and also violence against humanitarian personnel.

2. Logistics updates

COORDINATION

• Logistics & Telecommunications Cluster (LTC): Global Logistics and Telecommunications Cluster is working on updating the guidance for the clusters, so new visibility, logo, etc. is expected in the coming months. 
• 2026 HNRP Q1: review and progress update has been done by all Clusters with OCHA having compiled and consolidated all inputs; publication is expected shortly and will be shared accordingly.
• 2026 Funding: is alarming low for most Clusters. For Logistics, ECHO has been the main supporter this year so far, and efforts are underway together with WFP’s Partnerships Unit to reach out to other donors to raise awareness about a critical funding gap in Q4. 
• 2026/2027 Winter preparedness has started for all Clusters, but upcoming work on a joint response plan – and associated UHF opportunity – is again limited to only a few: FSL, Health, Shelter and WASH. Logistics has been again excluded, despite the fact that half of the cargo being stored and transported each year on behalf of partners are specific winter items. As enabling service, the Cluster is not in direct contact with affected communities and can therefore not report on numbers of beneficiaries reached.
• Global Evaluation: The Cluster was invited by OCHA to participate to a focus group discussion facilitated by an independent evaluation team, to share perspectives on access challenges affecting humanitarian operations, and feedback on OCHA’s access coordination and support efforts. This is part of OCHA’s global evaluation of its work on humanitarian access, with Ukraine selected as one of the country case studies.

COMMON SERVICES

• The Cluster continues to provide free-to-user storage services in Dnipro, Kharkiv and Odesa. Between January and early June 2026, 2,774 m³ of cargo were received and 2,196 m³ released across the three hubs, with Kharkiv showing the highest turnover. Type of cargo is predominantly Protection (31%), WASH (27%) and Shelter (22%). Main service users are INGOs to 51%.
• The Cluster warehouse in Kharkiv remains the only Cluster hub offering temperature-controlled storage (15–25°C), while Dnipro and Odesa provide general cargo storage. Storage is available for up to 60 days, with flexibility discussed case by case.
• The WFP warehouse in Dnipro was directly targeted on 25 May and hit by a missile, damaging 2 of 5 modules. The module rented by the Cluster is not affected, therefore this section remains operational, while the others are under repair. This incident occurred 6 days after the UNHCR warehouse in Dnipro was hit and damaged.
• Transport remains the most requested service, and 5 new Service Users were recorded in the past month. Since January, the Cluster transported 1,733 mt of cargo on behalf of 56 organisations to 141 locations, including 22 Inter-Agency Convoys (IACs) to frontline locations mainly in Kharkivska (33%), Khersonka (18%) and Dnipropetrovska (10%). 
• Partners were reminded that transport services are not limited to movements from Cluster warehouses and can support supplier-to-destination deliveries. On transport modalities, the Cluster reiterated that it works closely with WFP’s Transport Unit and uses a mix of commercial transporters and WFP fleet, depending on destination and operational requirements. For IACs, WFP trucks are used systematically to ensure humanitarian visibility and branding, in line with expectations emphasized by the Humanitarian Coordinator. 
• Through the partnership with the Ukrainian Red Cross, the delivery of smaller quantities of cargo, less than 5 mt, can be supported.
• Partners were reminded that life-saving relief items are always prioritised. Office furniture does not belong in this category; however, the Cluster supports the evacuation of hospital equipment from frontline clinics.

TRAINING

• The 2^nd Ukrainian session of the Introductory Importation & Customs Clearance online course has started on 27 May is running until 07 July (6 weeks, self-paced). 73 logisticians registered for it and face the task of completing 5 modules: 1. Customs and Importation in the Humanitarian Context; 2.  Coordinated Border Management; 3. The Real Costs for the importation of humanitarian relief goods; 4. Document and Information Quality; 5. Modernization of Customs system. The 3^rd and last Ukrainian session for this year is scheduled from 12 October to 30 November and will be announced in due time.
• The next quarterly Logistics Cluster Induction (LCI) training in Ukrainian will take place in Kyiv on 24-25 June. Registration for the 2-day face-to-face course opened on 02 June and will close on 12 June. Interested candidates can sign up through the link shared via mailing list. The maximum number of participants is 30. For any enquiries related to the training, partners are encouraged to write to yuliia.okhrimenko@wfp.org .

3. Telecommunications update

CURRENT TRANSITION & PHASE OUT END-YEAR

• Already in 2026, some of the security communication services were transferred to UNDSS. This year, significant progress has been made with UNDSS to handover the frontline sites where security communication services are installed.
• WFP HQ is leading the TESS+ (Telecommunications Security Standards) project in close collaboration with UNDSS HQ. The last assessment for TESS in Ukraine was conducted in 2020 before the full-scale invasion. This week an assessment team has arrived in country and is currently on mission in the East (Dnipro and Kharkiv) and will soon proceed to the South (Odesa and Kherson).
• Aim is to review the operation set up and obtain feedback from Security Officers about the security communication services that are being provided, and then to formulate a recommendation to the Humanitarian Coordinator. If endorsed, it will be implemented as part of the transition and for UNDSS to take over by January 2027. 
• As a next step, also INSO shall be briefed to ensure NGOs will be aware of these developments.

ONGOING OPERATIONS

• An emergency communications assessment mission deployed to Zaporizhzhia and Kramatorsk following previous damage to repeater systems that had rendered both sites non-operational and degraded VHF communications coverage in the affected areas. As of today, the site in Zaporizhzhia is back online and fully operational; the site in Kramatorsk is still being monitored, but systems will be possibly relocated.

4. AOB

• Departure: Logistics Coordinator Katja Hildebrand announced that her 4-year assignment in Ukraine is coming to an end on 30 June. After her departure and until the replacement is confirmed, Kateryna Karpo (kateryna.karpo@wfp.org) will be Officer-In-Charge and act as interim Coordinator from 01 July 2026.

The date of the next national coordination meeting in Kyiv will soon be announced for July.

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