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ICRC sends over 100 tonnes of relief supplies to Donbas

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published Jan. 21, 2020 at 10:41 am

The International Committee of Red Cross workers unload bags filled with combined animal feeding stuff and grinded wheat provided as humanitarian aid for local civilians in the city of Krasnogorivka west of Donetsk on Oct. 11. 2017

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

Five trucks carrying humanitarian aid provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have passed through the Novotroitske checkpoint on their way to the militia-controlled territory of Donbas.

“Food and hygiene kits weighing a total of 100,900 tonnes have been sent to residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” the press service of the Ukrainian State Border Service said on Jan. 21.