Servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces distribute Russian humanitarian aid to residents of a village in the Kharkiv region. Archival photo MOSCOW, May 21. The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations has already delivered more than 21,000 tons of humanitarian aid to the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as to Ukraine, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the department. «Since the beginning of the humanitarian operation More than 21,000 tons of humanitarian cargo were delivered in 337 convoys,» the agency's interlocutor said. According to him, one-time payments in the amount of 10,000 rubles are issued in the liberated territories of Ukraine, more than 21,000 applications have been accepted, more than 19,000 people have received money. «Including pensioners and public sector employees. The pickup points work every day, including on weekends,» the Ministry of Emergency Situations added. On February 24, Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The agency called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.
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