Local residents queue for Russian humanitarian aid in a village in Kharkiv region. File photoMOSCOW, June 20Russia has delivered more than 34,000 tons of humanitarian aid to Ukraine since March, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said on Monday. The Federation has already delivered to Ukraine 34,004.2 tons of essentials, food, medicines and medical supplies, carried out 1,193 humanitarian actions, including four in the past day in the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as Kherson region, during which 393 tons of humanitarian aid were handed over to the civilian population,” he said at a briefing. tons of essentials and foodstuffs. 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 bullying and genocide by the Kyiv 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 Donbas. .jpg» />March 15, 11:57 InfographicsHumanitarian aid collection points for refugees from DonbassInfographicsViewAccording to the statement of the Russian Defense Ministry, 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 significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine . The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
