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Over 100 Vehicles Carrying Russian Humanitarian Aid Cleared by Customs

© RIA Novosti . Sergey Pivovarov / Go to the mediabankA Russian convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine have passed customs clearance at the Russian "Donetsk" checkpoint.
A Russian convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine have passed customs clearance at the Russian Donetsk checkpoint. - Sputnik International
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Over 100 trucks carrying Russian humanitarian aid to eastern Ukraine have passed customs clearance at the Russian "Donetsk" checkpoint, spokesman for Russia's Southern Customs Directorate Rayan Farukshin told RIA Novosti Saturday.

ROSTOV-ON-DON, September 13 (RIA Novosti) – Over 100 trucks carrying Russian humanitarian aid to eastern Ukraine have passed customs clearance at the Russian "Donetsk" checkpoint, spokesman for Russia's Southern Customs Directorate Rayan Farukshin told RIA Novosti Saturday.

"As of 7 am, over 100 vehicles with humanitarian cargo have been cleared by customs," Farukshin said, adding that the vehicles go through the border checkpoint and then head for Ukraine in small groups.

Earlier, a RIA Novosti correspondent said that about 70 trucks have passed the border checkpoint and are now headed for Luhansk. The customs procedures were performed by Russian officers, who were monitored by their Ukrainian colleagues.

On Friday, the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) said that Moscow had formally notified it that the second Russian humanitarian aid convoy would arrive Saturday. The convoy includes 200 trucks that are carrying canned food, sugar, flour and other aid of a total weight of 1,880 thousand tons.

The first convoy of 280 trucks carrying about 2,000 tons of Russian humanitarian aid was sent to eastern Ukraine in late August and entered the country through a checkpoint controlled by independence forces after spending more than a week waiting at the border.

Russia condemned Ukraine's deliberate delaying of the aid, sending its trucks across the border although some procedures had not been completed, prompting a negative reaction by Kiev and the West.

Residents of the conflict-ravaged Luhansk, who had been living for several weeks on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe, greeted the aid delivery.

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