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19 of May, 22:03

Red Cross: Kiev bothers to provide humanitarian aid to residents of Donbass
The Ukrainian authorities prevented the representatives of the international Department of the red cross to assist the residents of Donbas humanitarian aid, said the regional Director of the ICRC in Europe and Central Asia Laurent corbaz during the meeting With the head of the HRC under the President of Russia Mikhail Fedotov.
According to Korb, "the Ukrainian side is reluctant to contact for the provision of humanitarian assistance and often focuses on administrative barriers," according to the Internet office of the HRC.



Korb added that the operation to provide humanitarian assistance to refugees from the bass, and its inhabitants became the fifth scale in recorded history of the work of the red cross. It involved 75 foreign employees and about 300 local authorized organization. We emphasize, about the attempts of the Ukrainian military to place the activities of independent organizations seeking to help the civilians of Donbass, it was declared before. So, 25 April, it was announced that the Ukrainian Military was forcibly deprived of life of one and captured six volunteers of the humanitarian convoy. Since mid-April last year, the Kyiv Authorities are in the East of Ukraine "special operation" to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. The military actively used heavy machinery and military aircraft and helicopters. Refers to a large number of dead and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of houses and infrastructure. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand People. With fifteen February, the parties to the conflict in the Donbass declared a truce, under agreements concluded in Minsk after almost 16 hours of negotiations. However, despite the control system of the ceasefire, for the last time period shelling in Eastern Ukraine again became frequent.

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