02.07.2022 (21:30)

Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response

The Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response, in coordination with designated federal executive authorities, continues to carefully record the facts of the inhumane treatment of civilians and use of residential buildings, educational institutions and social infrastructure facilities for military purposes by Ukrainian armed groups:

in Bakhmut, Donetsk People's Republic, in the institute of foreign languages (Vasiliya Pershina st.) and in the civil registration office (Nezavisimosti st.), militants of nationalist battalions have deployed their units, as well as armoured equipment, positions of mortar and MRLS crews at the adjacent territories, the approaches to the buildings have been mined, but the local population has intentionally been left uninformed;

in Kharkov, in the technical lyceum №173 (Samarkandskaya st.), neo-Nazis from Ukrainian armed groups have deployed a strongpoint, armoured equipment and artillery;

in Konstantinovka, Donetsk People's Republic, in the residential buildings (Yevropeyskaya st.), AFU servicemen have deployed their firing positions, armament and munitions depots, as well as howitzers and MRLS at the local children's playground, while the residents have been restricted from leaving their apartments under the pretext of security.

In addition, on June 30, 2022, in Slavyansk, Donetsk People's Republic, AFU units launched an artillery attack from the local compound feed plant (Literaturnaya st.) at residential quarters in order to accuse Russia of eliminating the civilian population of Ukraine. The attack has resulted in the death of 1 woman and injuring 10 persons. Just in some minutes after the shelling, reporters from Ukrainian mass media commenced their work at the incident location, started taking photo- and videographic data about the consequences of allegedly indiscriminate attacks launched by Russian Armed Forces at civilian population. This kind of rapid arrival of Ukrainian journalists who supposedly happened to be around that way indicates a pre-staged scenario of this cynical provocation.

These acts commited by Ukrainian authorities show again their inhumane treatment to the lives of Ukrainian citizens and total disregard to all moral norms and principles of the international humanitarian law. It occurs with the tacit consent of the collective West that continues turning a blind eye to the numerous war crimes of the Kiev regime.

We emphasise again that the Russian Federation Armed Forces do not launch attacks at civilian infrastructure facilities and treat civilians with an exclusive humanity during the special military operation, unlike the Ukrainian side.

Despite all the difficulties and obstacles imposed by the official Kiev, 29,252 people have been evacuated from dangerous areas of Ukraine and Donbass over the past 24 hours, including 3,922 children, and in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 2,265,057 people have already been evacuated, including 356,884 are children.

The state border of the Russian Federation has been crossed by 351,225 private motor vehicles, including 4,702 over the past 24 hours.

More than 9,5 thousand temporary accommodation centres continue to operate in the regions of the Russian Federation. The arriving refugees are individually attended and promptly assisted in resolving various issues related to their further accomodation, employment, providing children with pre-school and educational services, as well as supplying with social benefits and allowances.

The hotline of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response, federal executive authorities, regions of the Russian Federation and various non-governmental organisations have received 35 requests to evacuate to Russia, the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, as well as to the Russian Armed Forces-controlled areas of Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Kharkov and Kherson regions. In total, the database contains 2,758,921 appeals of this kind from 2,139 settlements in Ukraine and Kiev-controlled territories of the Donbas republics.

In addition, 70 foreign vessels from 16 countries remain blocked in six Ukrainian ports (Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhniy). The threat of shelling and high mine danger posed by official Kiev prevent vessels from entering the high seas unhindered.

As a result of a series of measures taken by the Russian Navy, the Mariupol harbour continues being under mine clearance works, the port infrastructure is routinely under reconstruction.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have created the necessary conditions for the operation of two maritime humanitarian corridors that constitute safe lanes for navigation:

in the Black Sea (every day from 08:00 AM to 07:00 PM) to leave Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhnyi ports towards south-west from Ukraine's territorial sea, 139 miles long and 3 miles wide;

in the Sea of Azov (uninterruptedly) to leave Mariupol port, 115 miles long and 2 miles wide, towards the Black Sea.

Detailed information on the modus operandi of the maritime humanitarian corridors is broadcast daily every 15 minutes by VHF radio on 14 and 16 international channels in English and Russian.

The Kiev authorities continue to avoid engaging with representatives of states and ship-owning companies to resolve the issue of ensuring the safe passage of foreign vessels to the assembly area.

The danger to navigation from Ukrainian mines drifting off their anchors along the coasts of Black Sea states remains.

The Russian Federation is taking a full range of comprehensive measures to ensure the safety of civilian navigation in the waters of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

Demining detachments of the Russian Armed Forces and the EMERCOM of Russia are carrying out land and facility clearance tasks in the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics.

In total, 3,704.08 ha of terrain, 35 buildings (including 13 socially important facilities), 2 bridges and 9.64 km of roads have been explored. 44,758 explosive remnants have been detected and neutralised.

Federal executive authorities, in coordination with the regions of the Russian Federation, various public organizations, patriotic movements, continue to accumulate humanitarian aid. The greatest contributors to the relief effort were:

Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport, Federal Service of Court Baliffs, Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography, Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs;

the republics of Bashkortostan, the Chechen Republic, Crimea, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Sakha (Yakutia) and Tatarstan, as well as Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Leningrad, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Primorie, Rostov, Samara, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Tula, Voronezh and Yaroslavl regions, the Khanty-Mansi autonomous region, as well as the cities of Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Sevastopol;

among political parties and non-profit organisations: United Russia, the All-Russian Public Movement 'People's Front', the All-Russian Public Organisation of Veterans 'Battle Brotherhood', the autonomous non-profit organisation to support humanitarian programmes 'Russian Humanitarian Mission', the Open Joint Stock Company 'Russian Railways', the State Space Corporation 'Roscosmos' and the All-Russian Public State Organisation 'Union of Russian Women'.

Over 42,000 tonnes of prime necessity items, groceries, medication and medical products have been prepared at the collection points. Since March 2, 2022, 38,985.1 tonnes of humanitarian goods within 1,249 humanitarian campaigns; over the past 24 hours, the civilian population has been provided with 619 tonnes of humanitarian goods within 7 humanitarian campaigns held in the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, Kharkov and Kherson region.

On June 2, 2022, 6 humanitarian campaigns are being carried out in the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, in Zaporozhye region, during which 421.7 tonnes of basic necessities, medicine and food are distributed.

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