US Department of the Treasury Building in Washington DCWASHINGTON, Mar 13 The United States will allow its citizens to provide humanitarian assistance The Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics, making an exception to the sanctions, the Ministry of Finance reports. According to a message on the department's website, the general license will allow Americans to support humanitarian efforts in the LPR and DPR, including the export of agricultural and medical goods, work to counter the spread of coronavirus, as well as official activities of international organizations and personal money transfers, postal and Internet services. The Ministry of Finance noted that the license will include «actions related to humanitarian projects aimed at meeting basic human needs, building democracy, education, non-profit development projects, protecting the environment and resources». Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24 ala. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.
