Red Cross delivers aid to Ukraine

Geneva, april 2

A planeload of medical supplies for COVID-19 patients and other relief goods has arrived in Ukraine to help people enduring a six-year-old conflict in the country’s east, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday.

Eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists emerged in 2014, reported its first coronavirus infection on Tuesday and the ICRC said several more cases had been confirmed there since.

The 14 metric tonnes of supplies will go to hospitals and detention centres and serve both sides of the front line in the region, known as the Donbass, where the situation could become “disastrous” given the state of the health system, the ICRC said.

Items such as disinfectant fluids, syringes or IV fluids will help fight Covid-19 in the strife-torn country. — Reuters