MOSCOW - A new Russian Emergency Situations Ministry humanitarian convoy headed for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions will cross the Russian border into Ukraine in the Rostov region on Nov. 14. Assistance from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has been requested, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
” It is planned that eighty-two Emergency Situations Ministry trucks will deliver 625 tonnes of Russian humanitarian aid via the Matveyev Kurgan and Donetsk checkpoints in the Rostov region on Nov. 14,” ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said at a press briefing.
“We have formally requested assistance in the clearance of this cargo and the resolution of security issues from the Ukrainian side,” Lukashevich added.
The convoy is being sent “in collaboration with the Ukrainian side,” the diplomat stressed. “Moscow is very much hopeful of cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross,” he added.
The ministry spokesman said it would be the seventh humanitarian convoy sent to Donbas. The convoy will carry electrical equipment, food, medicine, fuel, lubricants and construction materials.
