Russia’s Emergencies Ministry announced on Sunday that more vehicles from other regions will join the convoy in the Rostov region before heading to Donbass with humanitarian aid — mainly food and medicine.
“Today (Sunday) at 5:00 a.m. Moscow time [0200 GMT] cargo vehicles, which will be part of another [convoy of] humanitarian aid for the civilians in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, left the Noginsky rescue center of Russia’s Emergencies Ministry for the Rostov region,” the ministry’s spokesman said.
Earlier, Russian Minister of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov said that the 32nd aid convoy will leave on July 16.
Russia has dispatched over 39,000 metric tons of humanitarian aid cargoes to the people of Donetsk and Lugansk since August 2014.
The region has been severely affected by fighting between Kiev forces and independence supporters, which started in April, 2014.
The conflict in Ukraine has so far claimed the lives of at least 6,500 people, according to the UN.
