Further delay in the delivery of Russian humanitarian aid to Ukraine’s embattled southeastern regions was inadmissible, Russian President Vladimir Putin told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday.
That was Russia's humanitarian convoy started its movement, Putin said.
Russia’s delivery of humanitarian aid to Ukraine’s embattled southeastern regions fully complies with norms of the international humanitarian laws, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday.
“By appealing to the norms of the international laws, which we have always observed and will be observing, means shifting the blame,” Ryabkov said.
“We are acting in full compliance with the norms of the international humanitarian law,” the diplomat said in a statement. “We are not going to put up anymore with the distressful situation of people living in protesting southeastern regions of Ukraine.”