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At an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, the representative of Russia Vitaliy Churkin called for the departure to the east of Ukraine with Russian humanitarian aid under the auspices of the International Red Cross Committee, the BBC reports . However, this proposal was not supported. At the same time, many participants in the meeting directly indicated the actions of Russia as a source of the problem.

The Deputy Ambassador of Ukraine to the UN Alexander Pavlychenko rejected the statements of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. At the same time, he admitted that the situation in Donetsk and Lugansk remains "serious." "The Ukrainian government controls the situation and remains open to cooperation with international partners," Pavlichenko said in his speech.

"Let's admit - the reason for the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Donetsk and Lugansk is violence from the separatists. Where there are no separatists, there are no humanitarian problems. Russia supplies the separatists with weapons. It recruiting militants, there was a direct shelling from the territory of Russia, - the UK's Permanent Mark Grant quotes the performance of British. - Russia cannot be the Savior of the people, who is itself. She pulled it into conflict. "

"Russia could end it all by stopping its stream of weapons," the US representative said.

"Russia from the very beginning supported the illegal war. Ukrainian forces are doing everything possible to liberate the country from illegal armed groups," the representative of Lithuania emphasized.

Only the representative of the PRC did not point out the need to disarm the illegal armed groups supported by Russia, Ukrinform notes . He limited himself to statements about the need to "show calm and restraint, compromise."

The head of the coordination and response actions of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian issues, John Ging said that without a political decision more and more people would be in danger or die, the UN news center reports . The conflict in Ukraine has already taken away the lives of 1367 people, more than 4 thousand were injured. “The protection of the civilian population is the main concern. As the conflict is wide, the number of victims is growing,” Ging said. He called on the parties to the conflict not to prevent the movement of people, as well as provide humanitarian services to access to the population in need of assistance.

On Monday, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, sent official appeals to the UN, OSCE, the Council of Europe, and the ICK with an appeal to organize an international humanitarian mission. The Ukrainian authorities called this proposal "cynical."

"The proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for the so -called international humanitarian mission in the Donbass is cynical, if only because it is Russia who continues to destabilize the situation in the east of Ukraine, comprehensively supports the criminal actions of terrorists and is fully responsible for humanitarian problems in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions," the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine said.

On July 22, the UN Security Council unanimously approved the Boeing-777 disaster of the Malaysia Airlines airline in eastern Ukraine. The Council of Ministers supported the efforts to organize the "comprehensive, thorough independent international investigation" of the disaster. The resolution expresses concern in connection with reports of insufficient and limited access to the place of disaster. In addition, the Council of Ministers demanded “from armed groups that control the place of the disaster and the adjacent area, refrain from any actions that may pose a threat to the inviolability of the catastrophe, including the destruction, movement or damage of large and small fragments, equipment, personal property or remains.”