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Chechnya offering more substantial aid to eastern Ukraine than superpower US

ZAMYATINA Tamara 
Two announcements on aid to restore infrastructure damaged in combat operations in eastern regions of Ukraine came right one after the other

Moscow, July 30. /ITAR-TASS/. Two announcements on aid to restore infrastructure damaged in combat operations in eastern regions of Ukraine came right one after the other. US Vice President Joseph Biden said his country would grant $7 million to Ukraine for these aims. Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Russian Chechen republic's 1.3 million population, said he would immediately grant financial aid worth $7.5 million to Ukraine’s eastern regions. "We have not heard Joseph Biden’s statements and we are not comparing amounts of aid from the United States and the people of the Chechen republic to residents of eastern regions of Ukraine who come under massive military strikes from the Ukrainian army and mercenary armed groups,” Kadyrov said in an interview with ITAR-TASS.

“The republican budget does not give a possibility to allocate major funds to help those affected. That is why $7.5 million to eastern Ukraine will be allocated from the regional public fund named after Hero of Russia Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov,” the Chechen leader said.

“Money will be targeted first of all to the purchase of reanimation cars for emergency aid to people injured in a military operation by the Kiev authorities, for the purchase of medical appliances, medicines and bandaging material. Mobile power generators will also be bought for clinics in the east of Ukraine,” Kadyrov added.

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