Ukrainian border guards began inspecting the first trucks carrying humanitarian aid from Russia to eastern Ukraine on Thursday evening and the vehicles are expected to enter the territory of Ukraine on Aug. 22, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported.
“Ukraine border guards have started inspecting the first Russian trucks, we are observing. Trucks should roll tomorrow,” the ICRC said on Twitter.
Andriy Lysenko, an official with the information center of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, said on Thursday afternoon that Ukrainian border guard and customs services had begun the customs clearance of the Russian humanitarian cargo at the checkpoint at Donetsk, in the Rostov region of Russia.
Lysenko said ICRC officials will decide in what groups the Russian trucks will enter the territory of Ukraine. He said the tentative route is Donetsk-Luhansk, where “a location has been determined, a site where this cargo will be accumulated and distributed in the region by the Red Cross.”
