MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to those in need living on the territory of Russia's Crimea, ICRC's Director of operations, ICRC Director of Operations Dominik Stillhart told Sputnik in an interview on Thursday.
"In the Crimea,… we are supporting about 10,000 people, most vulnerable, that have fled from the conflict [on the territory of Ukraine] in 2014, and this is a program that we will continue as long as it is needed. And again, we are there with the full consent of the authorities," Stillhart said.
Crimea reunified with Russia following the region's referendum on March 2014, when 96.77 percent of the Crimean Republic's electorate and 95.6 percent of Sevastopol residents voted in favor of the move. The referendum took place in the aftermath of a coup in Ukraine in February 2014.