Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response (August 2, 2022)
Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response, in cooperation with the authorised federal executive authorities, continues to record numerous facts of criminal actions by Kiev regime against civilians, as well as the use of medical infrastructure for military purposes by Ukrainian armed formations:
in Slavyansk, Donetsk People's Republic, Ukrainian nationalists have equipped a stronghold in the buildings of the National Agrarian University Technical School (Svobody Street) and have set up roadblocks and firing points on the approaches to the educational institution, while there has been no evacuation of local residents from nearby residential buildings;
in Kharkov, AFU units are concentrated in the Sports Palace (Petro Hrygorenko Avenue), weapons and ammunition depots are equipped, and the approaches to the building are mined, but the local population is deliberately not informed about this;
in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian militants have deployed armoured vehicles and equipped firing positions for heavy artillery and multiple rocket launchers on the adjoining territory of the railway transport vocational school (Pushkina Avenue);
in Odessa, territorial defence fighters have equipped MANPADS firing positions on the upper floors of residential buildings (Spartakovskaya Street). Local residents are not evacuated from their flats and are in fact being used as human shields by the nationalists.
In addition, according to reliable information, militants of Ukrainian armed formations have carried out another bloody provocation in Kherson Region. Nationalists shot up a bus with civilians evacuating to Kiev-controlled territory on a stretch of road near Dolgovoye. At the same time, photo and video recordings of allegedly indiscriminate Russian strikes on civilians were carried out by specialists of the AFU Centre for Information and Psychological Operations.
Such actions by criminal Ukrainian authorities demonstrate complete indifference to the fate of their own citizens and absolute disregard for all norms of morality and the principles of international humanitarian law.
Despite all the difficulties and obstacles imposed by the Ukrainian side, over the past day, without the participation of Kiev, 23,475 people were evacuated from dangerous areas, 3,714 of them children, and in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 3,050,921 people have already been evacuated, of which 482,074 are children.
The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 504,862 personal vehicles including 5,252 per day.
More than 9,500 temporary accommodation centres continue to operate in the regions of the Russian Federation. The refugees are dealt with on an individual basis and are promptly assisted with various pressing issues relating to onward accommodation, employment assistance, places for children in kindergartens and educational institutions, and the provision of entitlements to social benefits.
Over the past 24 hours, the hotline of the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response, federal executive authorities, constituent entities of the Russian Federation and various NGOs received 21 requests from foreign and Ukrainian citizens to evacuate to Russia, the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, as well as to the Russian Armed Forces-controlled areas of Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Kharkov and Kherson regions. In total there are 2,759,789 such appeals from 2,139 locations in Ukraine in the database.
Within the framework of the implementation of the Initiative of Understanding for the Safe Transportation of Grain from Ukrainian Ports, the vessel Razoni (flag of Sierra Leone, cargo - maize) sails from Odessa port to Tripoli port (Lebanon) since August 1, 2022. The Russian Federation is strictly adhering to its commitments in order to implement the agreements reached to ensure the export of grain crops and mineral fertilisers from Ukrainian ports.
However, 69 foreign vessels from 15 countries remain blocked in six ports (Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhny). There also remains a danger to navigation and damage to port infrastructure from drifting Ukrainian mines off anchor along the coast of the Black Sea states.
The Russian Armed Forces have created conditions for the operation of two maritime humanitarian corridors, which are safe lanes for ships:
in the Black Sea - to leave Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhnyi ports in a south-westerly direction from Ukraine's territorial sea, 139 miles long and 3 miles wide;
in the Sea of Azov, to leave Mariupol port 115 miles long and 2 miles wide towards the Black Sea.
Detailed information in English and Russian on the modus operandi of the maritime humanitarian corridor is broadcast daily every 15 minutes on VHF radio on 14 and 16 international channels in English and Russian.
Demining detachments of the Russian Armed Forces and the EMERCOM of Russia are carrying out land and facility clearance tasks in the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics.
A total of 6,320.82 hectares were checked, 620 buildings (including 13 socially important facilities), 4 bridges and 96.6 km of roads. 188,222 explosive objects have been detected and deactivated.
The Military Construction Complex of the Russian Defence Ministry continues to build and reconstruct vital facilities as part of the measures to restore the infrastructure of the people's republics of Donbass:
in Donetsk People's Republic:
in Mariupol: the first phase of residential district (12 residential buildings with 1,011 flats, completion date in September-November 2022) and an administrative and rescue centre for EMERCOM (scheduled for completion in December 2022);
60-bed multi-purpose medical centre (completion date in September 2022);
pathologoanatomic building with medical-forensic unit (completion date in October 2022);
Saur-Grave memorial complex (completion date in September 2022);
in Volnovakha - water pipeline over 20 km long (completion date in September 2022);
in Lugansk People's Republic:
in Lugansk: 200-bed multi-purpose medical centre (completion date in October 2022);
in Rovenki - water pipeline over 40 km long (completion date in October 2022).
Federal executive authorities, together with the subjects of the Russian Federation, various public organizations, patriotic movements, continue to accumulate humanitarian aid.
The greatest contributors to the relief effort were:
Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport, Federal Bailiff Service, Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography, Federal Agency of Nationalities;
republics of Bashkortostan, Dagestan, Crimea, Sakha (Yakutia), Tatarstan, Kabardino-Balkarian and Chechen Republics, Krasnodar and Stavropol regions, Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kostroma regions, Leningrad, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Rostov, Samara, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Tula and Yaroslavl regions, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area, as well as Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sevastopol cities;
among political parties and non-profit organisations: United Russia, the People's Front All-Russian Public Movement, the All-Russian Public Organisation of Veterans "Battle Brotherhood", the autonomous non-profit organisations Humanitarian Volunteer Corps and the Russian Humanitarian Mission, the open joint-stock company Russian Railways, the state corporations Roscosmos and Rosatom, and the all-Russian public and state organisation Russian Women's Union.
For a great part of Ukrainians, effectively betrayed by their own criminal authorities, Russian humanitarian aid remains the only way to survive.
More than 52,000 tons of basic necessities, food and medicines have been prepared at the collection points. Since March 2, 2022, 50,543.3 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to Ukraine, 1,396 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including 6 actions in Kherson and Kharkov regions, as well as in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 596.6 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.
On August 2, 2022, 5 humanitarian actions have been planned and are currently being carried out in Zaporozhye and Kharkov regions, in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 415.4 tons of basic necessities, medicine and food will be distributed.