Moscow has offered under the auspices of the International Committee of the red cross (ICRC) to bring humanitarian aid to the city's South-East of Ukraine. Russia's envoy to the UN Vitaly Churkin called humanitarian situation in Donbass tragic. Night in new York happened emergency meeting of the UN security Council, dedicated to the humanitarian situation in Ukraine. The scale of the crisis described the head of the Department of retaliatory actions of the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian Affairs John Ginga. "In Ukraine almost 4 million people live in areas covered by the ongoing violence. Fights regularly go in densely populated areas, and therefore local inhabitants are threatened by increasing direct danger. Also caused substantial damage to vital infrastructure - broken electricity, difficult access to water", - quotes Ginga NTV. People fleeing similar conditions, daily Russia. According to the version Churkin, since the beginning of the incident, the border crossed almost 800 thousand people. With this huge overload, the diplomat stressed that Russia will manage by itself. Not to mention the fact that our country is ready to help and forced migrants who stay in Ukraine. Moscow proposes to organize an international goal to send to Ukraine of Russian humanitarian aid under the aegis of the red cross, but requires that this ceased to disturb Kiev. "We want to offer to send convoys with Russian humanitarian aid under the aegis and in the company of adherents of the ICRC - in Donetsk and Lugansk and other cities of Ukraine, where internally displaced persons from the Eastern regions," he said. He recalled that on 4 August the head of Russian foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov has sent an official appeal to the UN, OSCE, Council of Europe, the ICRC with a call to organize an international humanitarian mission. Churkin stressed that Russia is ready for "maximum transparency" convoys. "Let the ICRC is monitoring the loading of convoys, accompanies them throughout the journey and manages the distribution of aid to those in need", - quotes the diplomat ITAR-TASS. He said that according to estimates of the Russian Federation, the inhabitants of the East of Ukraine is needed first of food, medicine and medical equipment, system of water purification, generators". With all this, the situation in the region, especially in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, Vitaly Churkin described as "catastrophic" by "any human standards".