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The Ukrainian government is asking Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to help to organize a supply of the humanitarian aid to the citizens living on the militants-controlled east of Ukraine.

“I would like one more time to address to our western partners, including the OSCE and the ICRC. We more than once attempted to deliver a humanitarian aid to the territories which are controlled by the Russian terrorists, but we can’t do that because they don’t accept a humanitarian cargo for the people, who became hostages of the Russian terrorists,” the Ukrainian Premier Arseniy Yatsenyuk said during the government sitting on Wednesday, Nov. 12.

According to him, the Ukrainian government is asking international organizations to help to provide access of the Ukrainian humanitarian aid to Donetsk and Luhansk regions to give its citizens a chance to survive.

“The government allocated means, we have resources for people could get water and food to cover at least their minimal needs. Since sending money there means that the Russian terrorists will steal each their kopeck, as they do with the money of the people, who leave these territories, at the checkpoints” the premier stressed.