16.08.2022 (21:30)

Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response, in cooperation with the authorised federal executive authorities, continues to record numerous facts of criminal actions by Kiev regime against civilians, as well as the use of medical infrastructure for military purposes by Ukrainian armed formations:

in Donetsk People's Republic:

in Aleksandrovka, Ukrainian armed formations are concentrated in the hospital building (Dzerzhinskogo Street), armoured vehicles are deployed in the surrounding area, and residents of nearby houses have not been evacuated;

in Artemovsk, AFU units are stationed on the territory of the tuberculosis hospital (Mariupolskaya Street), roadblocks and firing points are deployed, and the approaches to the building are mined, but the local population is deliberately not warned about this;

in Kramatorsk, AFU units have equipped barracks and weapons depots in the city psychiatric hospital (Ye. Bilokur Street), and artillery and MLRS have been deployed on the territory of the institution, from which they systematically shell nearby settlements;

In Novye Sanzhary, Poltava Region, Azov battalion fighters are stationed in a medical centre (Kurortnaya Street), an ammunition depot is equipped, while medical staff and patients have been cynically kicked out of the medical facility by nationalists.

Such actions by criminal Ukrainian authorities demonstrate complete indifference to the fate of their own citizens and absolute disregard for all norms of morality and the principles of international humanitarian law.

Once again, we call on all international organisations, especially the World Health Organisation, to influence official Kiev and take effective measures to prevent the use of medical infrastructure for military purposes.

Despite all the difficulties and obstacles imposed by the Ukrainian side, over the past day, without the participation of Kiev, 25,501 people were evacuated from dangerous areas, 14,242 of them children, and in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 3,420,866 people have already been evacuated, of which 555,902 are children.

The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 574,387 personal vehicles including 5,262 per day.

More than 9,500 temporary accommodation centres continue to operate in the regions of the Russian Federation. The refugees are dealt with on an individual basis and are promptly assisted with various pressing issues relating to onward accommodation, employment assistance, places for children in kindergartens and educational institutions, and the provision of entitlements to social benefits.

Over the past 24 hours, the hotline of the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response, federal executive authorities, constituent entities of the Russian Federation and various NGOs received 27 requests from foreign and Ukrainian citizens 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 there are 2,760,255 such appeals from 2,139 locations in Ukraine and from Kiev-controlled territory of the Donetsk People's Republic in the database.

However, 56 foreign vessels from 14 countries remain blocked in six ports (Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhny). As part of the implementation of Secure Grain Transport Initiative from Ukrainian Ports since August 1, 2022 a total of 16 vessels have left Ukrainian ports since August 1, 2022, with 453,246 tonnes of food exported, including: 379,981 tonnes of maize, 6,000 tonnes of sunflower oil, 50,300 tonnes of flour and 11,000 tonnes of soya, 3,050 tonnes of wheat and 2,914 tonnes of sunflowers.

There also remains a danger to navigation and damage to port infrastructure from drifting Ukrainian mines off anchor along the coast of the Black Sea states.

The Russian Armed Forces have created conditions for the operation of two maritime humanitarian corridors, which are safe lanes for ships:

in the Black Sea - to leave Chernomorsk, Odessa and Yuzhnyi ports in a south-western direction from Ukraine's territorial sea, 307 miles long and 20 miles wide;

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

Demining teams of the Russian Armed Forces, the Russian EMERCOM, as well as EMERCOMs of Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics continue to carry out tasks to clear explosive objects from the Donbass republics and liberated areas of Ukraine.

A total of 17,792.22 hectares were checked, 883 buildings (including 13 socially important facilities), 4 bridges and 148.82 km of roads. 530,888 explosive objects have been detected and deactivated.

The Military Construction Complex of the Russian Defence Ministry continues to build and reconstruct vital facilities as part of the measures to restore the infrastructure of the people's republics of Donbass:

in Donetsk People's Republic:

in Mariupol: the first phase of residential district (12 residential buildings with 1,011 flats, completion date in September-November 2022) and an administrative and rescue centre for EMERCOM (scheduled for completion in December 2022);

60-bed multi-purpose medical centre (completion date in September 2022);

pathologoanatomic building with medical-forensic unit (completion date in October 2022);

Saur-Grave memorial complex (completion date in September 2022);

in Volnovakha - a water pipeline over 20 km long (completion date in October 2022, 100% construction readiness, pontoon station pumps are being installed and connected);

in Lugansk People's Republic:

in Lugansk: 200-bed multi-purpose medical centre (completion date in November 2022);

in Rovenki - water pipeline over 40 km long (completion date in October 2022).

Federal executive authorities, together with the subjects 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 Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Federal Tax Service, Federal Customs Service, Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance, Federal Agency for Fishery;

Republic of Crimea, Chechen Republic, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk and Stavropol Territories, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Rostov, Sverdlovsk and Tula Regions, the cities of Moscow and Sevastopol, and Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District - Ugra;

among political parties and non-profit organisations: United Russia, the People's Front All-Russian Public Movement, the All-Russian Public Organisation of Veterans "Battle Brotherhood", the autonomous non-profit organisations Humanitarian Volunteer Corps and the Russian Humanitarian Mission, the open joint-stock company Russian Railways, the state corporations Roscosmos and Rosatom, and the all-Russian public and state organisation Russian Women's Union.

For a great part of Ukrainians, effectively betrayed by their own criminal authorities, Russian humanitarian aid remains the only way to survive.

More than 56,900 tons of basic necessities, food and medicines have been prepared at the collection points. Since March 2, 2022, 55,978.2 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to Ukraine, 1,458 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including 6 actions in Zaporozhye, Kherson and Kharkov regions, as well as in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 585.4 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.

On August 16, 6 humanitarian actions have been planned and are currently being carried out in Zaporozhye, Kharkov and Kherson regions, in Donetsk People's Republic, during which 443.7 tonnes of basic necessities, medicine and food will be distributed.

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