KIEV, August 22 (RIA Novosti) – The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has no information about the whereabouts of the Russian humanitarian aid convoy, spokesman Andriy Lysenko said Friday.
"We have no information related to the precise location of these vehicles because they have entered the territory controlled by terrorists," Lysenko said, referring to the war-torn eastern regions of Ukraine.
Over a hundred trucks with Russian humanitarian aid crossed the Ukrainian border, according to the Ukraine's National Security Council.
"If there are any actions going beyond the provision of international assistance… and things other than humanitarian goods or equipment will be found among the contents of the cargo, another form of response will follow," Lysenko warned.
Earlier in the day, several dozens of Russian trucks carrying humanitarian aid to violence-torn Luhansk and Donetsk regions crossed the border into Ukraine allegedly without clearance by Ukrainian customs officials and without escort provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
The first trucks in the Russian humanitarian convoy have already arrived in Luhansk, according to local independence supporters.
Moscow said Ukrainian authorities had been holding up for days the delivery of humanitarian aid to the trapped civilians in besieged Luhansk.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said earlier today that Kiev’s dragging on the process of delivering Russian humanitarian aid to eastern Ukraine seemed to be an attempt to create a situation when there is no one left to be helped.
A convoy of 280 Kamaz trucks carrying food, medicine and other essentials for population of eastern Ukraine left the Moscow region on August 12. It had been stranded at the border with Ukraine for more than a week.
