Russia dispatches humanitarian convoy to Ukraine’s Donbass
Russia has sent its 39th humanitarian aid convoy to the residents of Ukraine’s eastern regions, where an armed conflict is underway between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russia forces.
“At 0400 Moscow time (0100 GMT), over 100 vehicles left the Donskoy rescue center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry in the Rostov region and are headed for the state border,” Russia’s Sputnik news agency quoted a spokesperson of the ministry as saying on Thursday without mentioning the official’s name.
The trucks will deliver more than 1,200 tons of aid, consisting mostly of food and medicine, to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine, which have been the scene of fighting since August 2014.
Crackdown in the Donbass
Since then, Russia has dispatched over 46,000 tons of humanitarian aid to the regions, collectively known as the Donbass.
Kiev launched military operations in eastern Ukraine in April 2014 to suppress pro-Moscow protests there.
The mainly Russian-speaking regions have also been suffering from an economic blockade imposed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko last November. The restrictive measures have led to the withdrawal of all state-funded health, educational and social protection organizations from Donbass.
Some 8,000 people have been killed and about 18,000 others injured in Donbass since April 2014, according to the UN.
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