A serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces loads pallets of bread baked at a mobile bakery in the Kherson region. File photoMOSCOW, April 14On Thursday, 14 humanitarian actions are being held in the Donbass, in the Kherson and Kharkiv regions, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation. during which 502.1 tons of essentials and food products are transferred to the population,» Mizintsev said. In total, since March 2, Russia has already delivered 11,663.8 tons of humanitarian cargo to Ukraine, 820 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including six in the past 24 hours. Donetsk, Luhansk people's republics and Kherson region, during which 226 tons of essentials and food were handed over to the civilian population, the general noted. Over 22,000 tons of food, medicines and essentials were prepared at collection points, Mizintsev added.The Russian military delivered more than 30 tons of humanitarian aid to the Kharkiv regionRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
