Russian Armed Forces soldiers distribute Russian humanitarian aid to residents of a village in the Kharkiv region. File photoMOSCOW, June 25Russia has supplied Ukraine with more than 336 thousand tons of necessary aid since March, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said on Saturday. «Starting from March 2, 2022, the Russian The Federation has already delivered 36,334.2 tons of essentials, food, medicines and medical supplies to Ukraine.1,216 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including five in the past day in the Donetsk People's Republic, Zaporozhye, Kharkiv and Kherson regions, during which 417 tons of humanitarian aid were transferred to the civilian population. On June 25, 2022, two humanitarian actions are being carried out in the Donetsk People's Republic, during which 497.9 tons of essential items and food are transferred to the population,» Mizintsev said. Russia launched a military operation on Ukraine February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» 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 called the liberation of Donbass. In particular, Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk, as well as Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, and Svyatogorsk, which houses a large Orthodox monastery with the status of a laurel, were liberated in the DPR . Almost the entire territory of the republic has been liberated in the LPR, with the exception of the city of Lisichansk.
