Kyiv is considering the possibility of providing humanitarian assistance to Russia in connection with the floods in Kuban region, according to the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine.
“At the moment, we are working through the issue of providing
humanitarian assistance to the Russian Federation”, director of the
Foreign Ministry’s information policy department of Oleh Voloshyn said
at a briefing in Kyiv on July 10.
It was reported earlier that a severe flood in the early hours of
July 7 hit the towns of Gelendzhik, Novorossiisk, Krymsk and several
villages in the Krasnodar Territory, killing over 170 people.
The flood completely destroyed 400 houses in Gelendzhik and
Novorossiisk, as well as the villages of Divnomorskoye,
Nizhnebakanskaya, Niberdzhayevskaya and Kabardinka in Krasnodar
Territory. A total of 29,000 lost all of their property, while 5,500
more are left without essentials. Some 767 people, including 159
children, are staying at temporary camps in the disaster zone.
