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8 of July, 16:27

Russia has urged the OSCE to hold a special meeting on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine
Russia advocates the OSCE to hold a special meeting of Soviet organizations to discuss the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, said the standing of Russia in the authorized OSCE Andrei Kelin.
" Today we put the question of the early convocation of the permanent Council to discuss the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, it is poor and deteriorating, " - quotes Kelin ITAR-TASS." Today made through the Swiss chairmanship of the draft decision of the permanent Council, which is the requirement to immediately stop military operations, to withdraw Ukrainian forces from the conflict zone, the Ukrainian government must make a humanitarian corridor for civilians immediately allow the admission of food and other humanitarian assistance, " added Kelin. We emphasize, above the head of the PACE Anne Brasseur called the humanitarian situation in the East of Ukraine terrifying. As the head of the Federal migration service Konstantin Romodanovsky said that in the border regions of Russia are about 400 thousand immigrants from Ukraine. Russia has tried many times to send humanitarian aid to Ukraine. So, on June 27, the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia has directed the Ministry of foreign Affairs a note regarding the provision of humanitarian assistance to South-Eastern regions of Ukraine. However, on the next day, the Ukrainian foreign Ministry has sent Moscow a note on the impossibility of making Russian humanitarian aid, " given the uncertainty of its final destination ". As stated in the MOE, the Russian authorities have put about 300 tons of aid to the border areas hosting refugees, But on a platform of Ukraine assistance had been received, although the Ministry many times sent appropriate requests to Kiev.

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