
Relief truck. Archival photoMOSCOW, March 19Volunteers from the public organization «Rus Triedinaya» with the support of the Russian military delivered humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian village of Strelechie in the Kharkiv region near the Russian border, head of the organization Sergey Moiseev told RIA Novosti. We distribute to patients of the local hospital and children,» the source said. According to him, clothes, bottled water, food: stew and other canned food, pasta, sugar, gingerbread, chocolate were brought to the hospital. Video footage transmitted to RIA Novosti shows how boxes and packages of groceries are unloaded from a Z-marked minibus and brought into the hospital building. The Russian military has been providing humanitarian assistance in the Kharkiv region for some time, often at the risk of life. On the eve of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that nationalists fired at the place of distribution of humanitarian aid in Kharkov. A number of districts of the region, including the suburbs and outskirts of Kharkov, are already controlled by the Russian military and local militia interacting with them. Hundreds of residents of the Kharkov region — mostly old people and women with children — with the help of the Russian military moved to the neighboring Lipetsk region in the Russian Federation, reported the governor of this Russian region Igor Artamonov. They were resettled in temporary accommodation centers.

