KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY (Rostov Region), August 17 (RIA Novosti) — The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation covering in Russia, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine, Pascal Cuttat, examined the truck with baby food of the Russian humanitarian aid convoy, a representative of the contractor company transporting the cargo told RIA Novosti Sunday.
"Pascal Cuttat was informed that it would be best to send off the car with baby food first, as it is not equipped with refrigerators, and the product may go bad given the 40-degree heat, which has set in the Rostov Region," he said.
The ICRC representatives began selectively inspecting the Russian humanitarian aid trucks near the border with Ukraine earlier in the day.
The trucks carrying humanitarian aid to Ukraine’s eastern regions have been parked in the town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, in the Rostov Region, for several days awaiting the permission of the Ukrainian authorities to cross the border.
The first 16 trucks started moving toward the border earlier on Sunday, with more expected to follow later in the day.
In early August, in the light of a worsening humanitarian situation in the Ukrainian east, Russia came up with a proposal at the UN Security Council to send an international humanitarian mission with Russian humanitarian aid under the auspices of the ICRC to the troubled regions.
On August 12, 280 trucks carrying about 2,000 tons of humanitarian aid, with 400 tons of grain, 100 tons of sugar, 62 tons of baby food, 54 tons of medication, 12,000 sleeping bags and 69 mobile electrical generators set off from the Moscow region heading towards conflict areas in crisis-torn Ukraine.
