Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

10.08.2022 (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 civilian infrastructure for military purposes by Ukrainian armed formations:

in Donetsk People's Republic:

in Druzhkovka, AFU units have deployed heavy equipment in private households (Kazatska Street) and equipped firing positions and ammunition depots in residential buildings. Under the pretext of alleged security, the militants have forbidden local residents to leave their homes, and all their attempts to evacuate to safe areas on their own are being severely curtailed;

in Seversk, artillery and MLRS have been placed in the courtyards of residential buildings (Yamskaya Street) by militants, from which nearby settlements are systematically shelled, while no civilians have been evacuated;

in Pivnichnoye, Ukrainian nationalists have equipped strongholds and ammunition depots in apartment blocks (Solnechnaya Street and Kaluzhska Street). All approaches to the buildings are mined, but the local population is deliberately not warned about this.

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.

Furthermore, it is reliably known that in the near future the Kiev regime, under the pretext of allegedly searching for adjusters of air and artillery strikes of the Russian Armed Forces, plans to send a group of SSU and other security agencies to Kharkiv to conduct another large-scale punitive operation to identify citizens loyal to Russia (expressing pro-Russian views) and subsequently accuse them of "collaborationism". At the same time, SSU officers intend to use as grounds for detaining the city residents the histories of calls and SMS messages to Russian numbers found in their phones, correspondence in messengers condemning the current Ukrainian authorities, subscriptions in social networks to Russian channels, photo or video footage of the results of defeat of Ukrainian military facilities, and information from snitching on their neighbours, friends, relatives or acquaintances. Detained citizens will be subjected to threats of physical violence against their family members, violence and torture, as has already happened in Odessa, Nikolaev, Slavyansk, Sumy, Chernigov and a number of other populated areas.

We warn the international community in advance about this inhuman action being prepared by the criminal authorities in Kiev, which fully replicates the methods of the Nazis in the occupied territories during the Great Patriotic War.

Despite all the difficulties and obstacles imposed by the Ukrainian side, over the past day, without the participation of Kiev, 26,989 people were evacuated from dangerous areas, 5,966 of them children, and in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 3,258,206 people have already been evacuated, of which 518,534 are children.

The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 544,188 personal vehicles including 4,843 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 28 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 2,760,086 such appeals from 2,139 locations in Ukraine and from Kiev-controlled territory of the Donetsk People's Republic in the database.

However, 59 foreign vessels from 14 countries remain blocked in six ports (Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhny). As part of the implementation of the Safe Transportation of Grain from Ukrainian Ports. A total of 12 vessels have left Ukrainian ports since August 1, 2022, with 375,131 tonnes of food exported, including: 307,831 tonnes of maize, 6,000 tonnes of sunflower oil, 50,300 tonnes of flour and 11,000 tonnes of soya.

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 Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhnyi ports in a south-westerly direction from Ukraine's territorial sea, 307 miles long and 3 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 15,983.21 hectares were checked, 718 buildings (including 13 socially important facilities), 4 bridges and 130.98 km of roads. 468,985 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 - water pipeline over 20 km long (completion date in September 2022);

in Lugansk People's Republic:

in Lugansk: 200-bed multi-purpose medical centre (completion date in October 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, Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance, Federal Agency for Fishery, Federal Tax Service;

republics of Bashkortostan, Crimea, Tatarstan, Chechen Republic, Krasnodar and Stavropol regions, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Moscow, Rostov, Sverdlovsk and Tula regions, as well as Moscow and Sevastopol cities;

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 54,000 tons of basic necessities, food and medicines have been prepared at the collection points. Since March 2, 2022, 53,487.7 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to Ukraine, 1,429 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including 4 actions in Kherson and Kharkov regions, as well as in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 470.3 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.

On August 10, 5 humanitarian actions have been planned and are currently being carried out in Kharkov and Kherson regions, in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 426.9 tons of basic necessities, medicine and food will be distributed.

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