Claiming the Ukrainian government was deliberately dragging out the delivery of 280 trucks full of humanitarian aid, stalled in customs at the border with Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the convoy to go in irrespective of Ukraine’s wishes, and deliver aid to the civilians trapped in the eastern Ukraine warzone.
Reports out of Russia say that part of the convoy arrived in the sieged border city of Luhansk, setting up aid centers across the city, delivering food, water, medication, and even some electrical generators to the city. The rest is headed further south, to the largest city of Donetsk.
The Ukrainian government is calling the deployment of the humanitarian aid a “direct invasion” by Russia, and is demanding an immediate withdrawal of all the trucks as well as all of the supplies they brought in.
Ukraine initially made a deal with the Red Cross to bring aid in weeks ago, but reneged with the Red Cross made a deal with Russia to provide much of it. Since then, the Red Cross had been trying to work out a deal to bring the aid in themselves, but were not able to get Ukraine’s assurances that their aid trucks wouldn’t be attacked.
The US angrily condemned the Russian aid shipment, declaring the dispatch of food and medicine a “flagrant violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty,” and threatening new sanctions on Russia if the aid isn’t withdrawn immediately.
Russia’s UN Ambassador lashed Ukraine over the delay, accusing them of playing politics with the aid, and saying that with no chain of command in Ukraine to work with Russia had no choice but to send the aid in unilaterally. Ambassador Churkin also criticized Lithuania, the member of the UN Security Council which called an “emergency meeting” today over the aid shipment.
Britain claimed that no member of the UN Security Council supported the Russian move, though Russia says China has backed the decision, owing to the delays, and also got expressions of support from unnamed Latin American members.
Look: you are dealing with Victoria Nuland and the Neo fascism government in Kiev, now that you understood the concept, everything that moves or make a sound or named Russia, in their paranoid mind is against the Ukrainian people. Meanwhile Berzinski, rand corporation, Victoria Nuland and her Zionist husband prying for Russia speaking people in eastern ukrain to vanish. Where the hell is Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright when you need them. Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright when they startated the Yugoslavian war, their "preferred" natives were Kosovar Albanian, here in Ukraine the people involved preferred natives are Neo fascism.
Of course the United States of America has never ever VIOLATED THE sovereignty of another country, Russia is doing what the RED CROSS has asked it to do, but of course the United States has never refused a Red Cross request either has it!
Just remember that If it wasn't for the 5 billion dollars of funding to the Neo Nazi regime by the United States of America, none of this would have happened INCLUDING the downing of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft!
The fact that A violates B's rights doesn't give C the right to violate D's rights. The Ukrainians are the innocent victims here. They didn't overthrow their president. Victoria Nuland did that. If Putin wanted revenge, he should have re-annexed Alaska! But, as we all learned in primary school, bullies always pick on the little guy and run a mile from anyone of their own size!
Talk about convoluted logic.
This is so shameful – condemning aid, yet providing NONE of your own to a situation that is a humanitarian catastrophe.
At the same time, Obama announces that he is going to violate the sovereignty of Syria in order to bomb it. We KNOW that Washington is not going to stop there, and will continue on for regime change.
Main stream media outlets are reporting similar anti Russian propaganda as usual. Fortunately the U.S. is so wrapped up in so many other problems in Iraq they can and will do nothing about a few aid trucks.
I guess Saddam "asked for it", so we provided "humanitarian assistance" at his request, with the UN "unanimously behind" the decision to send "aid convoys" to Baghdad…
It has been clear from the start that this "aid convoy" is some sort of a scam. One possibility for sending in huge trucks half loaded is that the point is not what they are bringing in but what they are to bring out. As the rebellion peters out, the Russians will clearly want to recover their heavy weapons. Once the Ukrainians recover them, it will be clear from the serial numbers whether they were stolen from the Ukrainian army, as Putin claims, or not. I would guess not! In any event, Putin has shot himself in the foot yet again: he is in flagrant breach of international law and has demonstrated how easy is is to get accross the Ukrainian border!
They were checked by the media coming back. All empty.
If you knew what you were talking about, you'd understand that aid convoy trucks are often half-full, so if one or more break down, the cargo can be moved to other trucks and reach the destination.
Your hate of Russia make you forget the suffering of civilian population.Even many pro Kiev ukrainians think about women and children,We don't care if the truck is full or half empty : it brings something to people.