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Border guards: Red Cross sends 239 tonnes of humanitarian aid to occupied Donbas

Published Nov. 22, 2018 at 9:30 am

The International Committee of Red Cross workers unload bags filled with combined animal feeding stuff and grinded wheat provided as humanitarian aid for local civilians in the city of Krasnogorivka west of Donetsk on Oct. 11, 2017.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

The International Committee of the Red Cross has sent 239 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine.

“15 trucks carrying humanitarian aid from the International Committee of the Red Cross have proceeded through the Novotroitske checkpoint to the territory, which is temporarily beyond the control of the Ukrainian authorities. A total of over 239 tonnes of freight was registered,” the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine announced on November 22.