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Moscow Plans to Send Two Humanitarian Convoys to Ukraine This Month

© Sputnik / Sergei Pivovarov / Go to the mediabankRussian Emergencies Ministry official said that the 11th Russian humanitarian convoy carrying 1,400 tonnes of aid to the war-torn Donbas region is currently heading towards the Russian state border with Ukraine.
Russian Emergencies Ministry official said that the 11th Russian humanitarian convoy carrying 1,400 tonnes of aid to the war-torn Donbas region is currently heading towards the Russian state border with Ukraine. - Sputnik International
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Moscow will send at least two aid convoys to Ukraine on February 8 and 15, officials with Russia’s foreign and emergencies ministries said on Thursday.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia will send at least two aid convoys to Ukraine this month, on February 8 and 15, officials with Russia’s foreign and emergencies ministries said on unrelated occasions Thursday.

“Today I would like to announce Russia’s plans to send another humanitarian convoy as part of humanitarian assistance to the southeast of Ukraine. We expect to put [the plans] into practice with the assistance from the Ukrainian side and the international Red Cross committee on February 8,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told reporters.

Russian Foreign Ministry officials have sent a diplomatic note on the issue to their Ukrainian counterparts, Lukashevich said.

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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Artamonov, in his turn, told RIA Novosti that another aid convoy will set off from the city of Noginsk near Moscow on February 15.

“The 14th convoy will set off from Noginsk on February 15,” he said, adding that it was yet unclear how many vehicles would travel in the convoy.

The ministry’s latest convoy, the twelfth since Russia started aid deliveries to war-torn eastern Ukraine in August last year, delivered over 1,500 metric tons of humanitarian cargo to Donetsk and Luhansk on January 31.

An ongoing military confrontation between Kiev forces and eastern Ukrainian independence supporters has led to a humanitarian crisis in the region.

Since August, more than 14,000 tons of humanitarian aid have been delivered to the eastern Ukrainian regions of Luhansk and Donetsk. The convoys have delivered food, water, medication, power generators and construction materials.

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