MOSCOW, November 19. /TASS/. A truck convoy of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations has delivered humanitarian aid to the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics, the ministry’s press service reports.
More than 100 vehicles have brought more than 1100 tons of humanities cargo, mainly food, for residents of the embattled Donbas region. After the cargo is unloaded, the trucks will head back to the Russian Rostov region bordering on Ukraine.
This is a 45th Russian humanitarian convoy for Ukraine’s southeast. All in all, more than 53,500 tons of humanitarian cargoes have been sent to Donbas since August 2014.
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