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Germany is to send another batch of humanitarian aid to Kharkiv for forced refugees from the anti-terrorist operation zone in the first decade of November 2014.

“This is the [humanitarian] cargo, which has been initially declared, so it will be distributed under the same scheme, with the assistance of the Red Cross,” Head of the State Service for Emergency Situations of Ukraine Serhiy Bochkovsky told journalists in Kharkiv on Wednesday.

The press service of Kharkiv office of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said that the batch of the humanitarian aid from Germany would consist of medicines, household appliances, warm clothes and technical equipment for construction of model houses.

As reported, 112 trucks with humanitarian aid from the German government crossed the Ukrainian-Polish border on Oct. 7. The aid was provided in accordance with agreements between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko. On Oct. 8, the aid trucks arrived at the logistic center near Kyiv.

On Oct. 14, 20 trucks, including those with module houses for future transit town for refugees, arrived in Kharkiv.