Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, stated his support to Pavlo Zhebrivsky, Head of Donetsk Regional Military and Civil Administration concerning the idea to build a chain of logistics centers in the oblast, located along the contact line in the anti-terrorist operation zone.
Such centers are designed to offer financial services, humanitarian aid, medicines and food to residents, the press service of the Donetsk administration cited Pyatt as saying that after his Thursday meeting with the mayor in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk.
The ambassador said that the United States had allocated $62 million in humanitarian aid for people who suffered from the conflict. He said that he expected U.S. technical experts to be working together with the oblast’s governor on implementation of the initiative.
Pyatt and Zhebrivsky also discussed the oncoming municipal election set for October. The governor said that competition among different political views is rather constrained in the oblast where people could feel the effects of years of bonding between power and business.
