Russian aid convoy arrives at Russia’s state border, Emergencies Ministry says
MOSCOW, February 8 /TASS/. The Russian Emergencies Ministry relief convoy bound for Donbas has arrived at the Russian state border in the Rostov region, Oleg Voronov, the deputy head of the ministry’s national crisis management center, told TASS.
“The customs formalities at the Donetsk and Matveyev Kurgan border crossing posts are over and now head for Donetsk and Lugansk,” he said.
Representatives of Ukraine’s customs and border services and OSCE monitors are helping to inspect the vehicles.
More than 170 trucks will deliver over 1,800 tonnes of relief cargoes such as food, sanitary essentials, building materials and other life necessities for the population of the conflict-stricken Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
“The relief convoy was formed in the territory of the Rostov region over the past week. Cargoes were delivered from various parts of Russia,” Voronov said adding that the Russian Emergencies Ministry had practiced to perfection all the mechanisms of dispatching aid to Donbas from the convoy’s formation to the aid’s delivery to the final destination in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
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