The third convoy of Russian humanitarian aid for eastern Ukraine has arrived in the war-torn city of Donetsk. Earlier, Kiev and self-defense forces signed a memorandum aimed at effectively halting all fighting in eastern Ukraine after talks in Minsk, reports GHN based on RT.
The convoy of around 200 vehicles is carrying some 2,000 tons of cereals, canned food, generators, medicine, warm clothes, and bottled water.
Russian authorities said they had offered to allow the Ukrainian border guards to check the vehicles on the border on several occasions, but the guards declined without citing any particular reason.
The trucks have started unloading the aid in two of the city's storehouses.
"We need humanitarian aid badly as there is almost no food in the shops. People aren't receiving their pensions. Children are hungry. It's high time," a local resident, Vitaly, told RT.
According to another resident, people didn't sleep last night as they waited for humanitarian aid.
"People are suffering now. We don't have any products. Thank you, Russia," he added.
After unloading humanitarian aid the trucks returned to Russia. The first column has already crossed the Russian border.