Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine (April 10, 2022)
The Russian Federation, guided exclusively by the principles of international humanitarian law, is continuing its large-scale measures to provide comprehensive assistance to the population in the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, as well as in the controlled areas of Ukraine.
The Russian Armed Forces have been opening humanitarian corridors in the Kharkov and Mariupol directions daily since 10:00 am (Moscow time). The Russian side is ready to deploy humanitarian corridors in any other directions as soon as possible and to ensure the safe evacuation of civilians.
Of the nine humanitarian corridors in the Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions announced for the current day, the Ukrainian side has once again not provided any to Russia.
In response to humanitarian initiatives by Germany, Turkey and France to evacuate civilians and foreign nationals from Mariupol, also provide humanitarian routes daily open an additional humanitarian corridor to Berdyansk and onwards in two directions: the first by land transport to the Republic of Crimea or Zaporozhye (to Kiev-controlled territories), the second by sea transport to selected destinations.
The Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response, in co-operation with the authorised federal executive authorities, continues to carefully record the continuing egregious facts of the inhumane treatment of civilians by the authorities in Kiev.
Here are just some of them over the past day:
in Kostyantynivka, Kramatorsk district, Donetsk People's Republic, nationalists equipped firing positions and placed heavy weapons in the buildings of schools No 2 and 15, the city hospital and residential buildings located on Yemelyanov Street;
In Lisichansk, Lugansk People's Republic, AFU units set up a stronghold, armoured vehicles and anti-aircraft guns in the building of a teacher training college.
Furthermore, official Kiev, supported by several countries of the collective West, continues to prepare monstrous and ruthless actions with massacres of civilians to further incriminate the Russian Armed Forces:
A provocation with staged filming of the search and opening of mass graves of civilians allegedly killed by Russian servicemen is planned in Ragovka settlement of Kiev region. In order to make this provocation more credible, a team of Ukrainian forensic experts and national police officers will be involved in the filming;
Foreign media reporters arrived in advance in the town of Kremaynnaya, Severodonetsk district, and set up in the building of the district hospital to videotape a provocation prepared by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which allegedly involved the shelling of ambulances transporting patients by Russian servicemen;
in Bilogorovka, Popasnya district, neo-Nazis have mined the chlorine tanks at the water supply plant, which they plan to blow up when the LPR militia formations approach the town.
Such actions and provocations by the Ukrainian authorities once again demonstrate their inhuman attitude towards the fate of the people of Ukraine and show a complete disregard for all norms of morality and international humanitarian law.
Despite all the difficulties and obstacles imposed by the Ukrainian side, over the past day, without the participation of Kiev, 18,668 people were evacuated from dangerous areas, 2,910 of them children, and in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 723,102 people have already been evacuated, of which 138,063 are children.
The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 93,334 vehicles, of which 3,185 per day.
In Mariupol, also without any involvement from the Ukrainian side, 134,963 people have already been rescued from the lawlessness of the nationalists, including 664 in the past 24 hours.
A daily analysis of appeals by Ukrainian citizens to the hotline of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for humanitarian response in Ukraine, to federal executive authorities, various public organizations, as well as constituent entities of the Russian Federation, to family, friends and acquaintances living in Russia shows that a significant part of the population forcibly held by nationalists in Ukrainian cities is still seeking any opportunity to evacuate to Russian territory.
Over the past day, another 982 such appeals have been received, and in total there are already 2,744,605 of 2,126 settlements in Ukraine in the database.
Ukrainian nationalists continue to hold 6,338 foreign nationals from 12 countries hostage as human shields.
Furthermore, 77 foreign vessels from 18 countries remain blocked in Ukrainian ports. The threat of shelling and high mine danger created by official Kiev in its internal waters and territorial sea prevents vessels from safely leaving the ports and reaching the open sea.
The discovery on April 10, 2022, of a YM-1 anchor mine deployed by Ukrainian naval forces in the vicinity of a foreign vessel's mooring at Mariupol port berth No. 17, 50 metres from the Turkish vessel Azov Concord, provides further confirmation of the existing mine threat.
In confirmation of this, the Russian Federation is opening daily from 08:00 to 19:00 (Moscow time) a humanitarian corridor, which is a safe lane south-west of Ukraine's territorial sea, 80 nautical miles long and 3 nautical miles wide.
Every 15 minutes every day on international VHF radio channels 14 and 16, the Russian Navy transmits messages in English and Russian containing detailed information on the operation of the Maritime Humanitarian Corridor.
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. At the International Maritime Organisation, Ukraine's representatives refuse to discuss issues of ship departures security, demonstratively avoiding dialogue.
The Russian Federation is taking a full range of exhaustive measures to ensure civilian navigation in the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Mediterranean.
Once again, we call on the International Maritime Organization and the management of ship-owning companies to influence official Kiev to take measures aimed at unblocking and securing the departure of foreign vessels from Ukrainian ports.
More than 9,500 temporary accommodation centres continue to operate in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and are fully equipped with recreational facilities and hot meals. The refugees are treated individually and provided with qualified medical and psychological assistance.
A sufficient number of buses have been placed at the border crossing points to transport people to their chosen places of residence or to temporary accommodation centres.
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 Energy of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, Federal Agency for Fisheries, Federal Agency for Nationalities;
republics of Buryatia, Tatarstan and Khakassia, and the Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Irkutsk, Kursk and Yaroslavl regions;
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 for the support of humanitarian programmes "Russian Humanitarian Mission", the All-Russian Public Organisation "Russian Boxing Federation", the Charity Foundation "Pro Life" and the All-Russian Public and Public Organisation "Russian Union of Women".
More than 22 tons of basic necessities, food and medicines have been prepared at the collection points.
Since March 2, 10,315.3 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to Ukraine, 793 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including 12 actions in Kherson region, as well as in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 338 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.
On April 10, 10 humanitarian actions have been planned and are currently being carried out in Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 492 tons of basic necessities, medicine and food will be distributed.