Humanitarian aid to Novorossia

Russia's humanitarian aid to cross into Ukraine in batches

RT,

17 August, 2014

Russian humanitarian aid trucks will cross the Ukrainian border in small batches of several dozen vehicles and only after a thorough examination by border guards, Kiev says, following an official acknowledgment of 280 trucks carrying crisis-relief cargo.

“The cargo, in agreement with the mission of the Red Cross, will be delivered to the international crossing point of Izvarino-Donetsk in batches of up to 30 vehicles,” the head of the Ukrainian State Fiscal Service Anatoliy Makarenko was quoted as saying by LB.ua.

After clearing customs, the aid trucks will be transferred “only to official representatives of the Red Cross,” Makarenko added.

The Red Cross is expected to arrive at the border crossing on Monday to perform the necessary procedures.

Currently, only 16 trucks from the humanitarian convoy are at the “Donetsk” border checkpoint on the Russian side, awaiting inspection, while the rest are still parked at a local depot in order to avoid jamming the border crossing.

In total, Russia moved over 270 trucks with almost 1,800 tons of medical supplies, food, including baby food, sleeping bags and other basic necessities towards Ukraine’s border last Tuesday. But the cargo still has not reached the residents of the regions badly hit by the conflict, even after Kiev recognized the Russian convoy as humanitarian aid cargo of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Meanwhile, the German foreign minister stated that he supports the sending of Russian humanitarian aid to the region and hoped that during the talks “the final difficulties could be cleared.”

“It would be nice if this [Russian] cargo could be delivered to where it is urgently need - in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, as well as in other cities of Ukraine,” he said, as the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France met in Berlin for a second round of talks in search of a political solution to the Ukrainian crisis.

Lorries part of a Russian humanitarian convoy approach a checkpoint at the Ukrainian border some 30 km outside the town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky in the Rostov region, on August 17, 2014. (AFP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Saturday it was ready to take the aid shipment under its jurisdiction.

“All the parties involved should come to an agreement about conditions for the convoy to cross the territory of Ukraine, and ICRC staff should be guaranteed security as the Red Cross does not have its [own] armed guard,” ICRC’s spokeswoman Galina Balzamova told reporters.

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Viktoria Shilova: do the Ukrainians want war?

Виктория Шилова. Хотят ли украинцы войны?

Viktoria Shilova (Виктория Шилова), a member of the Dnipropetrovsk City Council and Oleg Lyashko's Radical Party, hence from the bastion of oligarch Kolomeysky, made a viral video denouncing Poroshenko and the war against the people in Donbass in the guise of "the Anti-Terrorist Operation."

She reveals a number of facts, which the Kiev regime tried to hide or distort:

1. 75% of the Ukrainians oppose the war.

2. The war benefits only the oligarchs who turned from thieves into killers.

3. The oligarchs are making big money on the war.

4. The true causalities are much higher than officially claimed: as a minimum, the casualty toll includes at least 22,000 killed in fourth months; 12,000 of the junta's armed forces; another 7,000 wounded, but these are only those listed in the institutions.

5. Every day, the junta's military machine kills 180-200 civilians in Donbass every single day.

6. The decisions made to wage the war against Donbass have been made illegally and unconstitutionally.

7. Poroshenko needs to be tried in the Hague.

8. Ukrainians have been lied and are lied by the oligarchs.

with English captions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5veOECY0tKQ

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Video recorded August 13. 

Original here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlG7bfSab7Q

Canada Delivers Last Munition Batch to Ukraine - Security Council

KIEV, August 17 (RIA Novosti) - Canada has delivered the third and last batch of munition to Ukraine's border guard detachments, the spokesperson for Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council said Sunday.

RIA Novosti,

17 August, 2014

"Yesterday, Canadian Air Forces' plane arrived in Borispol airport and delivered the next [third] part of the cargo, in particular, helmets and bulletproof vests for the use of Ukraine's border guard subdivisions," Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing.

Canada's Department of National Defense said on its website Saturday that the CC-177 Globemaster III strategic airlifter, filled with military equipment, took off from the Trenton base as part of Canada’s ongoing support to Ukraine.

The first batch was sent off on August 7 with the Canadian plane, carrying 32 tons of munitions, landing in Borispol four days later.

Canada’s contribution amounts almost up to $5 million and includes a range of targeted protection, medical and logistical equipment, such as helmets, ballistic eyewear, protective vests, first aid kits, tents and sleeping bags.

Kiev said earlier that it did not receive any military support from any country in the course of its military operation.

The Ukrainian regions of Luhansk and Donetsk are currently facing a humanitarian crisis, as a result of Kiev’s ongoing military activity in the country’s southeast. Moscow has repeatedly urged the Ukrainian government to put an end to the conflict.

The confrontation started when the Ukrainian government tried to suppress the independence supporters in southeastern Ukraine who refused to acknowledge the new authorities after the government coup on February 22.