A convoy of 11 trucks carrying 200 tons of aid from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the German Red Cross (GRC) and other partners of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has reached Ukraine. The assistance will soon be delivered to locations around the country based on security conditions, access and where the needs of civilians fleeing from and enduring conflict are most pressing. A priority will be to deliver assistance to people displaced from their homes and living in shelters.
The trucks are transporting:
Florian Seriex, Spokesperson for the ICRC in Ukraine said: “I’m currently in Ukraine in the city of Vinnytsia. I’m in a warehouse where we are currently offloading the content of eleven trucks, that’s about 200 tonnes of humanitarian assistance that just arrived in the country. This humanitarian assistance contains war-wounded kits, which means surgical, trauma kits, that will be distributed to hospitals. They contain blankets, mattresses. All the goods that are necessary for the people who have left their homes, who are currently stuck in shelters, and are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. Of course, we are conscious that this assistance is only a drop in the ocean of all the needs that we currently observe in Ukraine. People need food, people need water, people need to be in a safe place above all. In the coming days and coming weeks, the International Committee of the Red Cross and its partners will continue this humanitarian assistance and operations.”
Whilst this aid convoy is a positive development, it is merely a drop in the ocean of the vast humanitarian needs that ICRC teams see unfolding for the people affected by the conflict in Ukraine by the day.
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For more information:
Jason Straziuso, ICRC Geneva, jstraziuso@icrc.org, Tel.: +41 79 949 35 12
Crystal Wells, ICRC Geneva, cwells@icrc.org, Tel.: +41 79 642 80 56
Chris Hanger, ICRC Geneva, changer@icrc.org, Tel: +41 77 260 26 79
Loglist
ICRC Ref: 20220315-Ukraine-AidConvoy-AVN
Location: Hungary, Romania, Ukraine
Camera: ICRC
Date: 14-15.03.22
Duration: 03:42
00:00 ICRC and German Red Cross trucks with humanitarian aid pull out of Debrecen, Hungary as they begin the journey to Romania and then Ukraine.
00:45 Trucks arriving at the border of Romania and Ukraine.
01:57 Trucks arriving at the warehouse in Vinittsya, Ukraine on March 15
02:05 Soundbite Florian Seriex, ICRC
“I’m currently in Ukraine in the city of Vinnytsia. I’m in a warehouse where we are currently offloading the content of eleven trucks, that’s about 200 tonnes of humanitarian assistance that just arrived in the country. This humanitarian assistance contains war-wounded kits, which means surgical, trauma kits, that will be distributed to hospitals. They contain blankets, mattresses. All the goods that are necessary for the people who have left their homes, who are currently stuck in shelters, and are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. Of course, we are conscious that this assistance is only a drop in the ocean of all the needs that we currently observe in Ukraine. People need food, people need water, people need to be in a safe place above all. In the coming days and coming weeks the International Committee of the Red Cross and its partners will continue this humanitarian assistance and operations.
03:02 Humanitarian aid being unloaded from the trucks into the warehouse in Vinnytsia.
03:42 ENDS