MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The aid includes food, medicine, school textbooks and sports equipment, a ministry spokesperson told journalists early on Saturday.
"Today, the convoy with humanitarian aid for Donbas residents started its movement from the Noginsk rescue center of the Emergencies Ministry," the spokesperson said.
The Donetsk region will get over 750 metric tons of humanitarian cargo, while the Luhansk region will get about 2.5 tonnes (metric tons).
Ukraine’s southeast has been severely affected by Kiev’s special military operation, launched in the southeastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in April 2014. The operation was a response to local residents' refusal to recognize the new coup-installed government in the country.
