Charitable Fund of assistance to residents of Eastern Ukraine " We are with you, Donbass ", based in Russia, gathered for the month more than 100 million rubles, said the head of the Fund of businessman Gregory Komarenko. the organizers expect increasing amounts. According to Komarenko, the Fund has already started to help: the first truck with humanitarian cargo went on 6 may with Poklonnaya mountain, people are transferred money." This assistance is not only the physical address. This is our first goal. But It still is on the 2nd, 3rd stage - legal, organizational activity, " explained the member of the Fund, the chief editor of the magazine " Russian reporter " Vitaly Labin, RIA " Novosti ". As told the founders of the Fund, the data about those who need help, comes specifically from the population. The Foundation faces challenges In the delivery of assistance in Slavyansk, Donetsk region due to the lack of humanitarian corridors. According to the organizers, if the situation will not be resolved, assistance will be set once the city will cease to be regularly shelling from the Ukrainian security services. Remember, in mid-April, the Ukrainian authorities have launched a large-scale punitive operation in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, proclaimed the independence after the referendum due to the coup d'etat occurred in the country on 22 February. Security forces are actively using heavy artillery and combat aircraft, leading to numerous victims among the peaceful residents and destruction of houses and infrastructure. At the end of April the head of the Federal migration service Konstantin Romodanovsky many times noted that signs of a humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine become more explicit. Ukraine was invited to provide the delivery of the Russian humanitarian aid to the East of the country. However, the Ukrainian foreign Ministry on aid would not.
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