Red Cross transfers almost 76 tonnes of humanitarian aid to occupied Donbas

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published July 24, 2021. Updated July 24 at 4:37 pm

A resident of the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiyivka, in the Donetsk region controlled by Ukrainian forces, hauls a trolly loaded with water containers along a street in Avdiyivka on March 2, 2015.

Photo by AFP

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has sent 75.6 tonnes of humanitarian cargo with food and construction materials to the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk regions, the press service of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine said.

“Through the Novotroitske entry-exit checkpoint passed four trucks with humanitarian aid. The International Committee of the Red Cross for the population of the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine delivered food kits and construction materials,” the agency said on its website.

The total weight of the humanitarian aid was about 75.6 tonnes.