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

29.06.2022 (21:30)

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

The Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response, in cooperation with the competent federal executive authorities and law enforcement agencies, continues to record the facts of criminal acts by the Kiev regime against the civilian population of Ukraine and the people's republics of Donbas, as well as the use of civilian infrastructure by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and militants of Ukrainian nationalist groups for military purposes:

in Kramatorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, in the kindergarten №80 (Parkovaya st.) and the school №35 (Yaroslava Mudrogo st.), militants of national battalions have deployed their positions, as well as observation posts, firing positions and artillery guns at the approaches to the building;

in Odessa, on the upper floors of residential buildings (Yekaterininskaya st.), AFU servicemen have deployed their firing and sniper positions. Local residents have not been evacuated from their flats and are being used by nationalists as human shields;

in Seversk, Donetsk People's Republic, in the school №3 (Energetikov st.), Ukrainian armed groups have deployed armoured equipment, large-calibre artillery and multiple rocket-launching systems (MRLS), while residents of the nearby buildings are retained in the sports hall under the alleged pretext of their security.

These facts show the indifference of the Ukrainian authorities to the civilian population and their total disregard to the international humanitarian law. It occurs with the tacit consent of the so-called civilised western countries that continue turning a blind eye to the numerous war crimes of the Kiev regime.

Intercepted radio conversations of nationalists and foreign mercenaries show that the militants intend to wipe the city off the map in case of arrival of Russian Armed Forces and units of the Donetsk People's Republic in Avdeyevka that copies the scorched-earth tactics used by Nazis during the Great Patriotic War. It has been proved by one of these radio conversations (translated from Ukrainian):

'...we are ordered to burn Avdeyevka to ashes...

...what about civilians...

...fu.. (coarse language), do what you want, just do not let them out, ... (coarse language) to return home ...'

These acts committed by Ukrainian nationalists is aimed at accusing Russian Armed Forces of allegedly indiscriminate attacks at civilian infrastructure as it already had been practiced, as well as to spread it by Ukrainian and western mass media.

Despite all the difficulties and obstacles imposed by the Ukrainian side, 19,650 people have been evacuated from dangerous areas of Ukraine and Donbass over the past 24 hours, including 3,259 children, and in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 2,190,202 people have already been evacuated, including 346,595 are children.

The state border of the Russian Federation has been crossed by 339,190 private motor vehicles, including 4,250 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 41 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 2,758,804 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, 3,642.24 ha of terrain, 35 buildings (including 13 socially important facilities), 2 bridges and 9.64 km of roads have been explored. 40,651 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. More than 41 thousand tonnes of basic necessities and food kits, including baby food and life-saving medicines, have been prepared at collection points.

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, Ulyanovsk, 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'.

Since March 2, 37,770.4 tonnes of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered by the Russian Federation to Ukraine, 1,231 humanitarian campaigns have been carried out, including 5 campaigns in the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, Zaporozhye, Kharkov and Kherson regions, during which 343.3 tonnes of humanitarian aid were distributed to the civilian population of the liberated areas.

On June 29, 2022, 5 humanitarian campaigns are being carried out in the Donetsk People's Republic, in Zaporozhye, Kharkov and Kherson regions, during which 381 tonnes of basic necessities, medicine and food are distributed.

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