UNHCR sends medical equipment to occupied Donbas

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published June 21, 2019 at 11:28 am

United Nations Volunteers working for UNHCR Ukraine Public Information Unit in Kyiv, participates in loading humanitarian aid from UNHCR to be distributed to the affected population in eastern Ukraine.

Photo by UNHCR Ukraine

A truck with humanitarian aid from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) entered the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine through Novotroyitske checkpoint (Donetsk region), the press service of the State Border Service of Ukraine reports.

“Medical equipment with a total weight of 3,145 tonnes has been sent for the residents of the temporarily occupied parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” it said on June 21 morning.