Over 8,500 tonnes of humanitarian cargoes delivered to Ukraine: Russia
New Delhi: The Chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, Mikhail Mizintsev said that “More than 8,500 tonnes of humanitarian cargoes have already been delivered to Ukraine by the Russian side since early March.”
“Since March 2, a total of 8541.3 tonnes of humanitarian cargoes have already been delivered to Ukraine by Russia. As many as 757 humanitarian operations have been conducted, including seven during the past day in the Kherson region, and in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. As many as 449 tonnes of food products, clothes, medicines, and articles of daily necessity were distributed among people,” he said.
According to Mizintsev, more than 9,500 temporary accommodation centers are operating in Russian regions. He also said that some 22,500 tonnes of humanitarian cargoes have been raised in Russia to be dispatched to Ukraine.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in response to a request for help by the heads of the Donbass republics. He stressed that Moscow had no plans of occupying Ukrainian territories, but aimed to demilitarize and denazify the country.
