ST. PETERSBURG, March 11. /ITAR-TASS/. St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko has invited Mayor of the Crimean city of Sevastopol Aleksei Chalyi to visit the Russian city of St. Petersburg, where an agreement on cooperation between the two hero cities is planned to be sign, press secretary of the St. Petersburg governor Andrey Kibitov told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

“An agreement on cooperation between St. Petersburg and Sevastopol is expected to be signed during a visit, an agreement is already being drafted,” Kibitov said, recalling effective agreement on cooperation between Sevastopol and Kronshtadt, a town incorporated in St. Petersburg.

St. Petersburg authorities also decided to deliver relief supplies to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. “We have relief supplies that we are prepared to deliver upon agreement,” head of the city Committee for Social Policy Alexander Rzhanenkov told Itar-Tass. In his words, it is planned to deliver clothes, hygienic items, foodstuffs and other required things to Crimean residents.