Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response (July 20, 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 Kostantinovka, Donetsk People's Republic, nationalists have equipped strongholds at Municipal Hospital No. 1 (O.Tikhogo Avenue), armoured vehicles and artillery have been placed in the surrounding area, and neo-Nazis are detaining staff and patients in the hospital under the pretext of alleged security, effectively using them as human shields;
in Zaliznoye, Donetsk People's Republic, militants of Aidar nationalist battalion have equipped barracks and firing points in a polyclinic building (Pioneer Avenue), the approaches to the facility are mined, but the local population is deliberately not informed about this;
in Toretsk (Tereshkova Street) and Druzhkovka (Donskoy quarter Street), Donetsk People's Republic, AFU units are stationed in the buildings of medical preventive centres, weapons and ammunition depots are located, and armoured vehicles, artillery and MLRS are placed in the territories adjacent to the medical facilities;
in Nikolaev, AFU servicemen have equipped a stronghold in the building of a polyclinic (Pogranichnaya Street) and placed a large amount of military equipment in the immediate vicinity of the facility, without evacuating residents of nearby houses.
Despite repeated statements by the Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response, to date, all such facts remain ignored by the World Health Organisation and the world community.
In addition, Kiev regime's provocations against Ukraine's nuclear energy facilities continue unabated, threatening their safety.
For example, on July 18, 2022, Ukrainian nationalist formations used two kamikaze drones to attack facilities at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (one drone was destroyed on approach to the plant). It was only by sheer luck that this did not lead to damage to the plant's equipment and a man-made disaster.
Once again, we call on the United Nations, the International Atomic Energy Agency and other international organizations to influence official Kiev and take effective measures to prevent provocations at Ukraine's radiation-hazardous facilities.
Despite all the difficulties and obstacles imposed by the Ukrainian side, over the past day, without the participation of Kiev, 26,764 people were evacuated from dangerous areas, 4,624 of them children, and in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 2,718,597 people have already been evacuated, of which 431,310 are children.
The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 437,850 personal vehicles including 4,767 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 43 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 2,759,496 such appeals from 2,139 locations in Ukraine in the database.
In addition, 70 foreign vessels from 16 countries remain blocked in 6 Ukrainian ports (Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhniy). The threat of shelling and high mine danger posed by official Kiev prevents vessels from entering the high seas unhindered.
As a result of the measures taken by the Russian Navy, the mine threat in the waters of the port of Mariupol has been eliminated and measures are being taken to restore the port infrastructure.
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.
At the same time, the Kiev authorities continue to avoid engaging with representatives of states and ship-owning companies to resolve the issue of ensuring the safe passage of foreign vessels to the assembly area. The danger to navigation from Ukrainian mines drifting off their anchors along the coasts of Black Sea states remains.
The Russian Federation is taking a full range of comprehensive measures to ensure the safety of civilian navigation in the waters of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
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 4,386.96 hectares were checked (195.48 hectares over the past day), 41 buildings (including 13 socially important facilities), 4 bridges and 9.64 km of roads. 83,080 explosives were detected and defused, 10,910 of them during the day.
In the framework of measures to restore the infrastructure of the People's Republics of Donbass, the Military Construction Complex of the Russian Ministry of Defence has built the water line from Khanzhenkovskoye reservoir to Seversky Donets-Donbass Channel (four strings with a total length of over 90 km) in the shortest possible time. Residents of Donetsk and adjoining populated areas are supplied with up to 50,000 cubic metres of water per day.
Construction and rehabilitation of vital facilities continues:
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 (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, as well as Kabardino-Balkarian and Chechen Republics, Krasnodar, Primorsky and Khabarovsk regions, Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh regions, Kaluga, Leningrad, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Rostov, Samara, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Tula and Yaroslavl regions, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area, as well as Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Sevastopol;
among political parties and non-profit organisations: United Russia, the All-Russian Public Movement "People's Front", the All-Russian Public Organisation of Veterans "Battle Brotherhood", the autonomous non-profit organisation to support humanitarian programmes "Russian Humanitarian Mission", the Open Joint Stock Company "Russian Railways", the State Corporation for Space Activities "Roscosmos" and the All-Russian Public and Public Organisation "Russian Union of Women".
More than 47,600 tons of basic necessities, food and medicines have been prepared at the collection points. Since March 2, 2022, 45,809.8 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to Ukraine, 1,333 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including 6 actions in Zaporozhye and Kharkov regions, as well as in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 559.1 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.
On July 20, 6 humanitarian actions have been planned and are currently being carried out in Kharkov and Kherson regions, in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 384 tons of basic necessities, medicine and food will be distributed.