International Committee of the red cross (ICRC) plans in the near future to achieve a major increase of the budget for the mission for Ukraine, it can be an increase of 20 million Swiss francs, said the head of the ICRC Peter Maurer.

before the conversation Last news the head of the ICRC regional delegation for the Russian Federation, Belarus and Moldova Pascal Kutta told that the budget for the mission of the red cross in Ukraine to 2015 is 46 million Swiss francs (almost $ 50 million).

Maurer expressed hope that the visit to the Russian Federation and Ukraine have any understanding of how much money I'll have to ask our donors in addition to our budget for 2015 "." I dream that we will soon be able to sign up to the donor reasoned budget to scale up our activities in this region, "He said during a press conference in MIA" Russia today ".

"we have a possible opportunity to increase the budget (mission in Ukraine) at least another 20 or more million Swiss francs," said the head of the organization.

He noticed that the ICRC plans " in the next few weeks to achieve significant budget increase, because in the last few weeks we have greatly expanded the scale of our operations, for this reason, we have already exceeded our projected expenses ".

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