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Missing convoy
The New Times correspondent found him in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky
Photo: Sergey Khazov, The New Times
The humanitarian convoy with almost three hundred white KAMAZs who disappeared tonight, the special correspondent of The New Times at 15:45 found near the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region. About 25 km from the border with the Lugansk region of Ukraine, which is controlled by separatists. A column of white Kamazov with white numbers and the Moscow code 777, with red ordinal numbers on the windshield, accompanied by three dozen military vehicles (trucks) without any numbers at all, would shoot here, according to an employee of the Ministry of Emergencies, with whom the correspondent of The New Times, the documents will be drawn up. He does not exclude that the convoy will stand here until August 17.
Photo: Sergey Khazov, The New Times
The driver of one of the Kamazov said that in ordinary life he is a worker of one of the factories in Samara, that he, like all other drivers, volunteer: "They came, said, we need to help, promised to pay good money." How much - did not say. All drivers are dressed in uniforms: beige shorts and beige T-shirts are similar to the form of some Western special services. The driver, who looked at 50 years old and who did not name his name, said that the previous night they spent the night in the barracks near Voronezh, and here, in the Rostov region, they should be put up with tents. Your correspondent asked the driver if he was afraid to go to the Lugansk region, where they shoot and even bomb. The driver replied: "We were promised that there would be a corridor."
