B: Kiev introduced the initiative by Russia to deliver humanitarian aid to Donbass by rail

The Ukrainian Government has proposed to Moscow to significantly change the scheme of deliveries of humanitarian aid to the Donbass, the relevant document was sent to the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on the last working day of the week print Edition " Kommersant ".

the magazine, Recalling the relevant document, says that Kiev has instead of humanitarian columns to deliver the goods only by rail. Specifies that the composition will be required to cross the border of Ukraine in the area of residential settlements of the poplars in the Kharkiv region, Kupyansk to the composition with the Russian cargo after inspection are required to connect the cars with Ukrainian humanitarian aid.

in addition, data on the content of humanitarian aid, the Russian side will have to give a week before sending to the ICRC, the office of the high Commissioner of the United Nations on Affairs of immigrants or otherwise agreed to by the Kiev international organization, and similarly, in the Ministry of social policy of Ukraine.

the journal, citing Ukrainian diplomatic sources, adds that the document was handed over to the Russian side in the framework of one of the last meetings of the contact group on settling the situation in Eastern Ukraine. In the Russian government to clarify the document did not, because he is " still being considered ".

the print Edition also writes that Moscow calls a " reasonable discussion of the modalities of aid delivery to the working group on humanitarian issues of the contact group to resolve the situation in Donbass ".

Thus, according to the publication, the Plenipotentiary representative LNR in the contact group Vladislav Danego not aware of why this is necessary." Ukrainian customs officers have at present all the possibilities for screening convoys. If they don't trust your car to the customs officers and railway trust, well, let them deal with their customs ", - quotes the print Edition of the word Danego.

print Edition, referring to the words Danego, added that the DPR and LPR support any reasonable proposal, " but they must at least be reasonable.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 5 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

Just since August of last year the Ministry for emergency situations of the Russian Federation sent to the Donbass 31-car convoy, which delivered more than 39 thousand tons of humanitarian cargo.


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