The Russian Government has received numerous
requests for humanitarian aid from residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions,
who warn of a socio-economic emergency verging on a humanitarian disaster due
to the protracted fighting. Basic infrastructure facilities are inoperative,
and the population is suffering from acute shortages of food, drinking water,
medicine and other basic necessities. Energy and heating grids are broken down,
with winter rapidly approaching. Many education and healthcare institutions lie
in ruins.
The Russian Government will carefully consider these requests for urgent humanitarian
aid.