Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

15.08.2022 (21:30)

Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

It is known that AFU command is preparing large-scale provocations near Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. To implement them, a separate regiment of radiation, chemical and biological protection troops with up to 1,000 servicemen have already arrived in Nikopol', Dnepropetrovsk Region, equipped with special protective kits for action in conditions of radioactive contamination, as well as technical means of radiation reconnaissance and control.

We warn the international community and international organisations in advance of the provocations being prepared by the Ukrainian authorities, which could result in a real threat to the nuclear security not only of Ukraine, but also of Europe, while the criminal regime in Kiev and Western countries will blame the Russian Armed Forces for their possible consequences, following a well-established scenario with extensive media coverage.

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 Avdeyevka, AFU units are stationed in kindergarten No. 10 (Kommunalnaya Street), roadblocks are equipped along the perimeter, and the approaches to the institution are mined, but the local population is deliberately not warned about this;

in Artemovsk, militants of nationalist battalions have equipeed a stronghold and ammunition depot in school No 7 (Kuznechnaya Street), and placed artillery and MLRS in the surrounding area, without evacuating civilians from nearby houses;

in Nikolayevka, there are AFU soldiers stationed at Kindergarten No. 1 (Vitsedmirala Sinetskyi Street) and artillery positions are equipped near pre-school;

in Slavyansk, Ukrainian armed formations have deployed armoured vehicles, artillery pieces and MLRS in School No. 8 (Torskaya Street), from which they systematically shell nearby populated areas, provoking retaliatory fire from units of the Russian Armed Forces and People's Militia of Donetsk People's Republic. Civilians are not allowed to leave their homes, and the nationalists are effectively using them as human shields.

Such actions by Kiev once again demonstrate an inhuman attitude towards the fate of its own citizens and show a complete disregard for all norms of morality and international humanitarian law.

In addition, in Kurakhovka in Donetsk People's Republic, nationalists have mined two road bridges across Volch'ya River, which they intend to blow up and accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly indiscriminate strikes on transport infrastructure in a well-established scenario with extensive coverage in the Ukrainian and Western media.

We once again emphasize that during the special military operation, the Russian Armed Forces and military formations of Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics are not striking at civilian infrastructure facilities, are treating civilians extremely humanely and are providing civilians with comprehensive assistance and support.

Despite all the difficulties and obstacles imposed by the Ukrainian side, over the past day, without the participation of Kiev, 25,237 people were evacuated from dangerous areas, 3,702 of them children, and in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 3,395,365 people have already been evacuated, of which 541,660 are children.

The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 569,125 personal vehicles including 5,209 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 31 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 2,760,228 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 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 17,733.66 hectares were checked, 863 buildings (including 13 socially important facilities), 4 bridges and 148.41 km of roads. 526,838 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, 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, 55,392.8 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to Ukraine, 1,452 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including 4 actions in Zaporozhye region, as well as in Donetsk People's Republic, during which 184 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.

On August 15, 6 humanitarian actions have been planned and are currently being carried out in Zaporozhye, Kharkov and Kherson regions, in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 585.4 tonnes of basic necessities, medicine and food will be distributed.

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