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A convoy of 19 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to Ukraine's eastern Luhansk and Donetsk region left Kyiv on Thursday, Aug. 14.

Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Maksym Burbak and the president’s
envoy for the settlement of the crisis in eastern Ukraine Iryna
Heraschenko supervised the departure of the convoy.

Burbak told reporters that similar convoys were sent from Kharkiv and
Dnipropetrovsk on Thursday, Aug. 14. A total of 71 trucks are carrying 773
tonnes of cargo, including food supplies such as cereals, sugar and
canned food, as well as first necessity items.

All measures will be taken to ensure the security of the operation, the minister said.

The aid convoys are heading to the city of Starobilsk in the Luhansk
region where they will be met by representatives of the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), who will subsequently distribute the
supplies among the civilian population of terrorists-controlled
districts in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.