Donetsk, Rostov region - The head of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) mission in the Rostov region, Paul Picard, has said that the mission's monitors at the Donetsk checkpoint on the Russian-Ukrainian border registered the passage of 220 vehicles as part of a humanitarian aid convoy.
Starting from 10.30 p.m. on Friday, Sep. 12 we watched 220 humanitarian convoy vehicles heading towards the Ukrainian border, 193 of them with goods and the rest being support vehicles, Picard told reporters on Saturday, Sep. 13.
He said they did not see Red Cross representatives among the convoy members.
He also said that OSCE representatives did not register any instance of the goods being cleared by Ukrainian border guards.
Pickard said the OSCE mission did not inspect the goods but only monitored the passage of the convoy.
