(VOVworld) - Russia’s 12th humanitarian convoy will leave for Donbass, eastern Ukraine, in the next two weeks, Deputy Emergencies Minister Vladimir Stepanov told the TASS News Agency on Thursday. But Stepanov didn’t make clear the specific amount of humanitarian supplies to be delivered to Ukraine.
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| A Russian convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine travels along a road south of the city of Voronezh August 14, 2014. (Photo: Reuters) |
On Thursday, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko and Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev agreed during a phone call to hold a meeting on the Ukrainian situation of the “Normandy quartet” countries (Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and France) at the end of January. President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia is preparing for the high-level talks but there has been no confirmation of a specific date.