
The delivery of Russian humanitarian aid to the east of Ukraine is repaired by new obstacles, the Russian Foreign Ministry said . The preparation of provocations against the "humanitarian convoy" allegedly joined the final stage, the department claims.
In contacts with representatives of the Ukrainian authorities and the International Committee of the Red Cross, almost all key transmission parameters were agreed, the Foreign Ministry claim. “At the same time, there are forces that intended not only to deprive the population of the southeast of Ukraine so much right now, but also to carry out open provocations, fraught with further complication of the situation in the conflict zone,” the statement says that the diversion group of the punitive battalion “Aidar” plans to minate separate sections of roads in the Luhansk region, to destroy to destroy, in order to destroy in order to destroy. Motor transport with a humanitarian cargo and the accompanying staff, and then accuse the militias of terrorist activities. "
In addition, the Foreign Ministry pays attention to the “sharp intensification of hostilities by Ukrainian security forces with an obvious goal to cut the path of the humanitarian column from the Russian-Ukrainian border to Lugansk, agreed with Kiev”.
The Foreign Ministry urges the parties to immediately announce the ceasefire for the period of the promotion for the delivery of humanitarian aid to the residents of Donbass.
Thanks to the support of the world community, it was possible to avoid escalating the situation around the humanitarian cargo from Russia. This was stated by President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the press service of the head of state reports . He emphasized that now he is constantly negotiating with world leaders. “The whole world is now with Ukraine. We have never had such powerful support,” Poroshenko said. At the same time, he noted that the aggressor continues provocations against Ukraine. “But today they actually remained in isolation - no one in the world supports them,” Poroshenko emphasized.
According to him, Ukraine formed a column of about 80 trucks with humanitarian aid for residents of Donbass. "We want all the people who suffer from the terrorist activities of the so -called DPR and LPR to return to normal life," the president said.
On Friday, the speaker of the country's information center Andrei Lysenko said that government troops in Lugansk were conducting positional battles, the city is almost surrounded . The mining of road terrorists and the actions of their sabotage and reconnaissance groups was constantly mentioned in the reports of the ATO press center and Ukrainian officials.
The ICRChas not yet provided Ukraine with "humanitarian aid" who arrived from Russia , Lysenko said on Friday. For this reason, he noted, the Ukrainian side cannot begin to design cargo at the Russian borderpost "Donetsk".
At the same time, as the head of the ICRC unit in Europe and Central Asia, Laurent Korba, said, the Russian side presented the organization of information about the cargo as a whole, but not about the contents of each particular machine. “What is not enough now is a specific information on each truck,” said the ICRC employee. “But we admit that this list is compiled by representatives of the Ukrainian side.” He also specified the number of trucks sent by Russia. In fact, there are not 280 of them, as reported earlier, but 262.
An official of the Department of International Activities of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies Sergei Karavaytsev said that the column with “humanitarian aid” would remain in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, near Russian Donetsk, for a few more days. “The date and time of the exit is being discussed,” Karavaytsev added.