City resident carrying boxes of humanitarian aid. File photoMOSCOW, April 7Russia has already delivered more than 9,500 tons of humanitarian cargo to Ukraine, 767 humanitarian actions have been carried out, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said at a briefing on Thursday. «Starting from March 2, the Russian Federation has already delivered 9,521 to Ukraine, 3 tons of humanitarian cargo, 767 humanitarian actions were carried out,» Mizintsev said. He specified that in the past 24 hours alone, seven humanitarian actions were carried out in the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as in Kharkiv and Kherson regions; 850 tons of essentials, medicines and food were handed over to the civilian population. «On April 7, 11 humanitarian actions are being held in the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics, Kharkiv and Kherson regions, during which 407 tons of essentials and food are transferred to the population,» he added Mizintsev. The head of the National Defense Control Center recalled that more than 9.5 thousand temporary accommodation centers operate in Russia. In addition, over 22,500 tons of food, medicines and essentials have been prepared at the collection points.The column of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR with humanitarian aid was fired at the entrance to RubezhnoyeRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was the liberation of Donbass. In the DPR, Ukrainian troops were driven out of Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk; there are battles for Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov. In the LPR, according to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense on March 25, 93% of the territory of the former Lugansk region was taken under control. Only the cities of Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, as well as a number of other settlements of this agglomeration, remain under the rule of Kyiv.
