UNICEF sends medical supplies, equipment for water supply to Donbas

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published Sept. 27, 2019 at 10:46 am

Volunteers prepare humanitarian aid packages in a school gym in Avdiyivka, eastern Ukraine, on Feb. 5, 2017. Russian-backed military offensives at the end of January and early February killed at least 30 people and forced many people to seek basic assistance.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

Humanitarian aid from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) – medicines and equipment for water supply – was sent to separate areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions on September 26, the press service of the State Border Service of Ukraine said.

“Yesterday, four trucks with humanitarian aid of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) passed through the Novotroyitske checkpoint into the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territory. A total of 8,8 tonnes of humanitarian aid, namely medicines and equipment for water supply were sent to the residents of Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” it said on Sept. 27.