Natalia Dobrovolskaya. The European Commission makes a promise to provide Ukraine with additional fifteen million euros of humanitarian aid.

"Our Commissioner (Christ) Stylianidis is hosted in Ukraine right now announced fifteen millions of additional humanitarian aid," he said on the first day of the week official authorized EC Margaritis Schinas.

" The EU increases humanitarian assistance to Ukraine using the new aid package, including cash and in-kind support that will deliver trucks and planes provided by the EC and member countries in solidarity. On the financial side, the EC has undertaken objazatelstva (highlight) additional fifteen million euros of humanitarian aid, which will help to meet the immediate needs of residents in areas affected by conflict, " reads the communiqu? of the European Commission.

Funds will be spent on accommodation, food, water and warm clothes. The press release says that some planes and trucks With humanitarian cargo will arrive in Kiev on Tuesday.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat of the region's population. According to the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 5 thousand civilians. The ninth of December in the Donbass began a consistent militias and security forces through the mediation of the OSCE another truce. On January 9, the intensity of attacks in the region has increased, the increased number of victims of the conflict. Military 18 January intensified shelling of Donetsk, Kiev officially acknowledged that at the airport of the city held a massive special operation.

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