"Tomorrow a plane will land at the [Moscow] Vnukovo [International] Airport (Terminal A) at 17:10 [14:10 GMT]…that will be carrying six children from Donbas who need urgent medical assistance and surgery," a statement, released by the press service Friday, says.
According to the statement, four of the children have serious medical conditions and two of them have mine-blast and gunshot wounds. Ambulances will take most of the children to Moscow hospitals from the airport.
Fighting between Donbas militia and Kiev forces intensified at the beginning of this year, despite the ceasefire agreement that the sides reached in September, 2014.
According to self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), following a battle between Kiev-led forces and local militia for the Donetsk airport in early January more than 30 civilians, including children, were killed in the town of Horlivka in the Donetsk region in a series of airstrikes carried out by Ukrainian warplanes.
On Thursday, the Contact Group on Ukraine agreed on a number of measures aimed at ending the conflict in southeastern Ukraine. The agreement was signed at the conclusion of a 16-hour Normandy Quartet meeting in the Belarusian capital, Minsk. The Normandy format talks ended with Russian President Vladimir Putin, his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande signing a joint declaration in support of the measures agreed upon by the Contact Group.
The measures include a ceasefire between Kiev forces and Donbas independence supporters, the creation of a buffer zone between the two conflicting sides through the withdrawal of heavy weaponry from the region and an all-for-all prisoner exchange.
The ceasefire comes into force at midnight (Kiev time) on February 15.
