Srikandi - Semua 200 trak konvoi Rusia ke-2 yang membawa yang dah lama nya yg ditunggu-tunggu bantuan kemanusiaan bagi kawasan
hancur di timur Ukraine tlh menyeberangi sempadan selepas minggu kelewatan
yang berlaku walaupun per-janjian koridor pelepasan dalam perjanjian gencatan
senjata Minsk.
"Pada 08:00 Moscow masa
(04:00 GMT) prosedur kastam untuk semua trak dan barang-barang di dalamnya
telah siap dibina," kata jurucakap perkhidmatan adat tempatan Rayan
Farukshin kepada agensi berita RIA Novosti.
Trak bermula melalui 'Donetsk'
pusat pemeriksaan Rusia ke dalam zon penimbal sejurus sebelum tengah malam pada
hari Jumaat. Lori terpaksa menunggu selama beberapa jam untuk mendapatkan
kelulusan untuk pergerakan selanjutnya dari-pada pegawai kastam Rusia diselia
oleh rakan-rakan Ukraine mereka.
200 trak Kamaz putih sedang
menunggu giliran mereka untuk menjalani prosiding kastam, sebagai kumpulan
pertama berpindah ke wilayah Ukraine awal pagi Sabtu.
Di sepanjang laluan konvoi,
ahli-ahli angkatan tentera republik sendiri mengisyti-harkan ini adalah
memastikan keselamatannya, Itar-Tass melaporkan. Selain itu, konvoi yang
bergerak ke arah Lugansk pada kira-kira 60 kilometer diiringi oleh kenderaan polis
lalu lintas.
Perang melanda penduduk timur
Ukraine hidup selama beberapa minggu di ambang bencana kemanusiaan. Penyerahan
bantuan adalah penting kerana baha-gian negara terus disekat oleh tentera
kerajaan mengehadkan bekalan makanan, manakala infrastruktur yang musnah dalam serangan
meninggalkan penduduk Lugansk tanpa elektrik dan air minuman.
Ini adalah penghantaran Rusia yang
ke-2 bantuan kemanusiaan untuk Ukraine, & hanya seperti dgn penghantaran
pertama barangan, pihak berkuasa Ukraine sedang lebih teliti dalam membiarkan
bantuan, menyimpan di sempadan.
Penyerahan bantuan telah
ditangguhkan kerana Kiev tidak memenuhi pelan awal diselaraskan dengan Rusia 3
minggu lalu, kata Stepanov. "Kami telah menunggu respons Kiev," kata
beliau pada Khamis.
Beliau menyifatkan konvoi
kerana membawa kira-kira 2,000 tan makanan, ubat-ubatan, peralatan penulenan
air, dan penjana kuasa dan konsaimen lain, semua derma dari pelbagai rantau di
Rusia.
Jawatankuasa Antarabangsa
Palang Merah (ICRC) - yang mengiringi penghantaran Rusia pertama bantuan
kemanusiaan ke Ukraine - tidak menghadiri yang ke-2, jurucakap ICRC Anastasia
Isyuk memberitahu Itar-Tass.
"ICRC tidak pernah secara
rasmi diberitahu perjanjian antara Rusia dan Ukraine pada pencapaian perkiraan
teknikal untuk konvoi ini," katanya. "Oleh itu, ICRC tidak terlibat
dalam membantu dalam penghantaran barang-barang."
Konvoi pertama dihantar bantuan
kpd Ukraine pd 22 Ogos Seminggu kemudian, menteri-menteri luar Rusia dan
Ukraine, Sergey Lavrov dan Pavel Klimkin masing-masing bersetuju untuk
menghantar penduduk Donetsk dan Lugansk kawasan kelompok baru bantuan
kemanusiaan.
"Kami amat berterima kasih
kepada Persekutuan Rusia untuk memberi kami bantuan," perdana menteri LPR
memproklamirkan diri republik itu, Gennady Tsypkalov, berkata Jumaat, sambil
menambah bahawa penduduk di rantau ini bermasalah kini dalam keadaan
"kritikal".
Pada 5 September, perjanjian
gencatan senjata telah dicapai semasa rundingan di antara wakil-wakil Minsk
kerajaan Ukraine dan pemimpin republik. Pelan damai, berdasarkan cadangan
Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin, panggilan untuk "semua untuk semua"
tahanan pertukaran perang, pengeluaran perkakasan & akses ban-tuan kemanusiaan
ke kawasan ini.
RUSSIA’s
2nd Ukraine Aid Convoy of 200 trucks
Crosses BORDER . . .
All 200 trucks in Russia’s 2nd
convoy carrying long-awaited humanitarian aid for devastated areas of eastern
Ukraine have crossed the border after weeks of delays that occurred despite an
agreement on relief corridors in the Minsk ceasefire deal.
“At 08:00 Moscow time (04:00
GMT) the customs procedures for all trucks and goods in them were completed,”
local customs service spokesman Rayan Farukshin told RIA Novosti news agency.
The trucks started passing
through Russia’s ‘Donetsk’ checkpoint into the buffer zone shortly before
midnight on Friday. Trucks had to wait for several hours to get clearance for
further movement from Russian customs officers supervised by their Ukrainian
colleagues.
The 200 white Kamaz trucks were waiting for
their turn to undergo customs proceedings, as the first group moved into
Ukrainian territory early on Saturday morning.
Along the route of the convoy,
the members of the self-proclaimed republic’s defense forces are ensuring its
safety, Itar-Tass reports. Besides that, the convoy that moves toward Lugansk
at around 60 kilometers per hour is escorted by road police vehicles.
Residents of war-ravaged
eastern Ukraine are living for many weeks on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe.
The aid delivery is crucial as parts of the country remain blocked by
government troops limiting food supplies, while the infrastructure destroyed in
shellings left the residents of Lugansk without electricity and drinking water.
This is the second Russian
shipment of humanitarian relief for Ukraine, and just like with the first
shipment of goods, the Ukrainian authorities are being over-scrupulous in
letting the aid in, keeping it at the border.
The aid delivery has been
delayed because Kiev did not fulfill the preliminary plan coordinated with
Russia three weeks ago, Stepanov said. “We've been waiting for Kiev's
response,” he said on Thursday.
He described the convoy as
carrying about 2,000 tons of foods, medicine, water purification equipment, and
power generators and other consignments, all donations from various regions of
Russia.
The International Committee of
the Red Cross (ICRC) – which accompanied the first Russian shipment of
humanitarian aid to Ukraine – is not attending the second, ICRC spokeswoman
Anastasia Isyuk told Itar-Tass.
“The ICRC has never been
officially notified of the agreement between Russia and Ukraine on the
achievement of the technical arrangements for this convoy,” she said.
“Consequently, the ICRC is not involved in assisting in the delivery of goods.”
The first convoy delivered aid
to Ukraine on August 22. A week later, foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine,
Sergey Lavrov and Pavel Klimkin, respectively, agreed to send the residents of
Donetsk and Lugansk regions a new batch of humanitarian aid.
“We are very grateful to the
Russian Federation for providing us with aid,” the prime minister of the LPR
self-proclaimed republic, Gennady Tsypkalov, said Friday, adding that residents
of the troubled region are currently in a “critical” situation.
On September 5, a ceasefire
agreement was reached during talks in Minsk between Ukrainian government
representatives and republic leaders. The peace plan, based on Russian
President Vladimir Putin's proposals, calls for an “all to all” prisoners of
war exchange, hardware withdrawal and humanitarian aid access to the area.
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