More than a hundred trucks delivered over 1,100 tonnes
of relief cargoes to the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk in Donbass on
Thursday, Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov said.
The Russian Emergencies Ministry has sent 45 aid convoys
to the populations of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Lugansk People’s
Republic (LPR) since August 2014 and has pledged to do that in 2016.
“We have planned our relief work until the end of the
year. We are already preparing New Year gifts for the Donbas children and old
people,” Puchkov told TASS.
He said that the federal bodies of state power, public
organizations and ordinary people, who are bringing toys, sanitary essentials
and New Year gifts, have energetically joined the relief effort.
“We are also planning our work for the first months of
2016,” Puchkov said.
He noted that the Russian Emergencies Ministry was acting in strict compliance
with the Minsk agreements on the provision of relief aid.
“We have been in contact with the International Red
Cross Committee, our Ukrainian colleagues and other organizations in carrying
out this kind of activity,” the minister went on to say.
“The delivery of relief cargoes is a vital factor for
the life and health of people and the provision of stable and reliable
operation of energy and socially important facilities in minimal necessary
volumes in the winter period,” Puchkov said.
The Russian Emergencies Ministry has delivered manuals and textbooks for the
Donbass students and schoolchildren. “The Moscow State University named after
Lomonosov; other leading Russian institutions of high learning and public
organizations are taking part in this work,” Puchkov stressed.
Source: Novorossia
Today 21-11-2015
