Servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces distribute Russian humanitarian aid to residents of the Kharkiv region. Archival photo MOSCOW, May 30. The Russian Emergencies Ministry delivered more than 1.3 thousand tons of humanitarian aid to the Donbass and Ukraine in five days, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the ministry.
" Since May 25, more than 1.3 thousand tons of humanitarian aid have been delivered to the DPR, LPR and Ukraine by motorcades of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. The cargo includes bottled water, food, medicines and essentials", the agency’s interlocutor said.
Also, according to him, the EMERCOM teams are clearing infrastructure and territories, more than 155 hectares have been surveyed, defused over 27,000 explosive items. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv 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 and, on March 25, they 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 called the liberation of Donbass.