EU airlifts 62 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Dnipropetrovsk for Donetsk, Luhansk regions
DNIPROPETROVSK. Jan 27 (Interfax) - Three flights have brought 62 tonnes of humanitarian aid from the European Union to Dnipropetrovsk.
European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides personally oversaw the unloading operation at the Dnipropetrovsk airport on Tuesday, an Interfax correspondent reported.
Stylianides said that the European Union had increased humanitarian aid for Ukraine three times in 2015 to 15 million euro.
He expressed concern about the situation in Mariupol, where civilians were killed.
Dnipropetrovsk regional administration officials and the European commissioner's representatives said that the humanitarian cargo was mostly intended for residents of Mariupol, Debaltseve and Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region and for forced migrants currently residing in the Dnipropetrosvk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhya regions.
The cargo includes warm blankets, tents, sleeping bags, clothes, medicines and food, Stylianides said.
