Emergency Situations Ministry's convoy brings over 500 tonnes of humanitarian cargo to Donetsk, Luhansk
MOSCOW. June 15 (Interfax) - A truck convoy of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry has delivered another batch of humanitarian cargo to Donetsk and Luhansk, the ministry said in a report on Thursday.
"Trucks of the Emergency Situations Ministry have brought over 500 tonnes of humanitarian cargo, mostly food care packages for children and medicines, to Luhansk and Donetsk," the report said.
The trip was uneventful, the ministry said. "Humanitarian aid has been delivered normally," it said.
All trucks were cleared on the Russian-Ukrainian border in the presence of Ukrainian customs and border officers. Both the vehicles and forwarding documents of the humanitarian cargo were examined.
The trucks are being unloaded at warehouses before the eyes of local self-government officials, who will be distributing the relief amongst social facilities and people of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
"All trucks will immediately depart for the Rostov region as soon as the last of them is unloaded," the ministry said.
This is the 66th humanitarian convoy sent to Donbas since the middle of August of 2014. Since then, residents of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions have been supplied with more than 68,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid, which has spared Donbas a humanitarian catastrophe, the ministry said.
