5500 PIN supplied aid kits have reached Sievierodonetsk within a UN convoy
Published: Apr 6, 2022 Reading time: 1 minute
People in Need continues to deliver much needed aid to badly damaged cities in eastern Ukraine. Yesterday two People in Need trucks reached Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk Oblast. These trucks brought food for 4,000 people and hygiene supplies for 1,500 people.
Our trucks formed part of an eight truck convoy organized by United Nations. The convoy delivered additional food rations, flour, plastic sheeting and blankets for 17,000 people, and four hospital electricity generators.
In Sievierodonetsk fighting continues, and thousands of people are cut off from gas and water supplies, and residential building are repeatedly hit by shelling. Hostilities are preventing people from evacuating safely and is restricting their access to basic food and hygiene items. Vulnerable people mostly stay in their homes and bunkers.
"People in Need’s aid delivered to Sievierodonetsk came from the PIN train that reached Dnipro few days ago, and from here it was brought by trucks further east. In Sievierodonetsk the items will be distributed by the Ukrainian Red Cross Society," says Petr Drbohlav, Regional Director for the Eastern Partnership and the Balkans.
In recent days, People in Need has delivered humanitarian aid to the most affected regions of Ukraine. Within UN convoys, PIN aid has reached the city of Sumy twice. Altogether four People in Need’s aid trucks loaded with food and hygiene items for 6,000 people arrived in the encircled city.
For more read https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/humanitarian-supply-convoy-reaches-sievierodonetsk-un-and-partners.
