The PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons says it is alarmed at the humanitarian situation which is the consequence of the war in eastern Ukraine and of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.
The United Nation's food agency said on Tuesday it will stop providing food aid to conflict-affected people in the eastern part of Ukraine at the end of February due to a lack of funding, despite a rising number of people going hungry, according to Reuters.
A truck convoy of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry has brought allegedly "humanitarian" aid for children and medicines in Donbas, according to the ministry.
Russia's 68th "humanitarian" convoy will enter the occupied Donbas on Ukraine's Independence Day, according to the press service of Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Approximately a quarter of the residents of Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine, occupied by Russia-supported militants, are experiencing food shortage, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs wrote in a report.
Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry has announced it will send its 66th "humanitarian" convoy to areas in Donbas that are not controlled by the Ukrainian government, according to a Russian-based UNIAN correspondent.