ROSTOV-ON-DON, September 13 (RIA Novosti) – All trucks from the second Russian humanitarian convoy carrying aid to eastern Ukraine have underwent customs proceedings at Russian "Donetsk" checkpoint, Rostov Region, spokesman for Russia's Southern Customs Directorate Rayan Farukshin told RIA Novosti Saturday.
“At 8 a.m. [Moscow time, 4:00 GMT] the customs procedures for all vehicles and goods insides of them were finished,” Farukshin said.
On Friday, the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic 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.
Residents of the conflict-ravaged Luhansk, who had been living for several weeks on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe, greeted the aid delivery.
