Kazakhstan has sent $400,000 worth of aid to Ukraine's southeastern regions to help ease the humanitarian crisis following months of military conflict, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said this weekend, inform.kz reports. Railway cars carrying canned meat, sugar, buckwheat and vegetable oil were delivered on Jan. 9 to Severodonestsk, a town near the Ukrainian-Russian border.
Ukraine's State Service of Emergency Situations and the administration of Luhansk Oblast received the aid in the presence of Kazakh officials and local and international NGOs, including the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, foxnews reports.
"Ukraine is experiencing a difficult time ... and in this situation, Kazakhstan cannot stay indifferent," a senior official from the Kazakh Embassy in Ukraine said, explaining the motive for Astana's decision to send aid. The deputy head of the Luhansk Oblast state administration, Olga Lishik, expressed Ukraine's gratitude to the people of Kazakhstan for their assistance.
INC News, 12/01/2014-via AK ZHAIK
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