A convoy with part of Ukrainian humanitarian relief for eastern Ukraine arrived in the town of Starobilsk, Luhansk region, at 8.30 on Thursday, Aug. 14 the State Service for Emergency Situations said.
Earlier, the Ukrainian president’s office said Ukraine was sending 800 tonnes of relief loaded on 75 trucks to Luhansk and Donetsk regions. The cargo, sent off on Thursday, was divided between three convoys one of which left from Kyiv, another from Kharkiv and still another from Dnipropetrovsk.
“The convoy with humanitarian aid that had set off from Kharkiv arrived in the town of Starobilsk, Luhansk region, at 8.30 on Aug. 14. The truckloads of food and vital goods were led by the chairman of the Ukrainian State Service for Emergency Situations, Serhiy Bochkovsky and accompanied by head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Ihor Baluta and acting head of Luhansk Regional State Administration Iryna Verihina. The convoy consists of 26 trucks: 18 vehicles had been provided by Kharkiv region, two by Poltava region, one by Cherkasy region, and five by the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food,” the emergencies service said in a statement.
The cargo included water, food such as vegetables, sugar, flour, sunflower oil, canned food, and honey, tea, medicines, and means of hygiene such as diapers, soap and detergents.
A 60-member team of the emergencies service’s Interregional Rapid Reaction Center had set up storage depots to keep the food before it was forwarded to its recipients.
The statement said rescue workers and logistics personnel from International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were trying to make sure that perishables such as fruit and vegetables should be the first to be sent off.
Then ICRC-overseen convoys were due to set off for various parts of Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
