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9 of July, 18:01

Kyiv demands clarification from UN-grateful for the assistance of the Russian Federation in the Donbass
Kiev wants to request from the UN clarification because of the gratitude expressed by the Geneva representative of the organization in Russia for the provision of humanitarian aid to the Donbass.

On Tuesday, the Director of the Geneva branch of the office for the coordination of humanitarian Affairs Rashid Khalikov said that he highly appreciated the humanitarian aid that Russia has the Donbass, noting that the assistance from the Russian Federation is helping to solve the problems in this region.

As said on Thursday the representative of the President of Ukraine on the peaceful settlement in the Donbass Irina Gerashchenko, who is in Kiev the sub-working group on humanitarian problems of the Minsk talks, " now our employees of the foreign Ministry has prepared appropriate statements and the notes about the illegality of similar statements that do not reflect the official position of the UN."

"We are waiting for official reaction," she said in private.

Just since August of last year the Ministry for emergency situations of the Russian Federation sent to the Donbass 31 the convoy, which delivered more than 39 thousand tons of humanitarian cargo. The emergencies Ministry will send 23 and 30 July of the next humanitarian convoys to Eastern Ukraine.

The military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of Donbas lasts more than a year. At the talks on February 12 were achieved consensus on stopping the fire, the withdrawal of heavy weapons, introduction to the Constitution of Ukraine changes on decentralization of power and the consolidation of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".

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