GENEVA (Sputnik) — President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer will meet with Russia's Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov in Geneva to discuss the humanitarian situation in crisis-hit Ukraine, the ICRC said Wednesday.
"Peter Maurer will meet with Mr. Puchkov on Monday [Feb. 16] to discuss the humanitarian situation in Ukraine," ICRC spokeswoman Jennifer Tobias told RIA Novosti.
In Ukraine, the ICRC is helping people affected by conflict in the east and by the political situation elsewhere, and is supporting the work of the Ukrainian Red Cross.
In December 2014, the ICRC said it might allocate $48 million to tackle the dire humanitarian situation in Ukraine in 2015. According to Mauer, the IRCR was also working closely with the Russian Red Cross, helping to deal with a large number of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the country amid hostilities.
Russia has been providing help to Ukraine's southeast by sending more than a dozen of humanitarian convoys to Donetsk and Luhansk. Russian humanitarian cargo has included food, medication, blankets, electric power generators and construction materials.
