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Russian aid convoy returning from Luhansk

Published Dec. 12, 2014 at 5:49 pm

Boxes are unloaded from the back of a lorry, part of a Russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid for residents of the Eastern Ukrainian Donetsk region, in the city of Makiyivka near Donetsk, on December 12, 2014. Ukraine says it will conscript 40,000 soldiers in 2015 and double its military budget as it tries to meet the demands of an ongoing conflict against pro-Russian rebels in its eastern provinces.

Photo by AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV

A convoy of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry has left Luhansk for the Rostov region, the ministry's spokesperson said on Dec. 12.

“More than 80 vehicles, which delivered over 800 tonnes of aid, have been
unloaded and left empty for the Rostov region,” the source said.

Earlier the ministry sent another convoy to the Rostov region, which has
delivered aid to Donetsk.