Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response (July 7, 2022)
The Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response continues registering numerous cases of criminal acts committed by the Kiev regime against civilian population.
It has been reliably elicited that Ukrainian nationalists are preparing another cynical provocation with deaths amongst civilian population to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of launching indiscriminate attacks against civilian facilities in Slavyansk, Donetsk People's Republic. With this purpose, in the orphanage 'Topolyok' (Bulvarnaya st.), neo-Nazis have been retaining the staff of this institution. At the same time, the building has been mined and militants of nationalist units are planning to explode it as soon as Russian troops launch artillery attacks at the military facilities.
We warn the so-called civilised West in advance that the abovementioned provocation by the Ukrainian authorities about the alleged 'atrocities of the Russians' are to be widely circulated through the Western media and in various resources of the Internet.
We reiterate that Russian Armed Forces provide comprehensive assistance and support to the civilian population, treat them with high humanity and do not launch any attacks at the civilian infrastructure facilities during the special military operation.
In addition, Ukrainian armed groups continue using residential buildings, educational entities and social facilities with military purposes:
in Avdeyevka, Donetsk People's Republic, in the courtyard of a multi-storey residential building (Tsentralny ave.), militants of Ukrainian nationalist groups have deployed their manpower, heavy armament and armoured equipment. Residents are prohibited to abandon their apartments under the pretext of security.
in Zaporozhye, in the gymnasium №71 (Mayakovskogo ave.), units of AFU and nationalist groups have concentrated their manpower, firing positions and munitions depots;
in Zmiyev, Kharkov region, in the school №2 (Kharkovskaya st.), neo-Nazis have deployed their firing positions, as well as a munitions depot in the basement of the building;
in Seversk, Donetsk People's Republic, in the residential buildings (Zarechnaya st, Tikhaya st.), nationalists of Ukrainian armed groups have deployed their manpower and perform robberies. Feeling a complete impunity, militants have shown particular cruelty and cynicism against the residents of the city, including elderly people, women and children.
These acts commited by Ukrainian authorities show again their inhumane treatment to the lives of Ukrainian citizens and total disregard to all moral norms and principles of the international humanitarian law. It occurs with the tacit consent of the western countries that continue turning a blind eye to the numerous war crimes of the Kiev regime.
Despite the intense resistance of the Kiev regime, 25,439 people have been evacuated from dangerous areas of Ukraine and Donbass over the past 24 hours, including 3,695 children, and in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 2,384,574 people have already been evacuated, including 375,620 are children.
The state border of the Russian Federation has been crossed by 373,405 private motor vehicles, including 4,720 over the past 24 hours.
More than 9,5 thousand temporary accommodation centres continue to operate in the regions of the Russian Federation. The arriving refugees are individually attended and promptly assisted in resolving various issues related to their further accomodation, employment, providing children with pre-school and educational services, as well as supplying with social benefits and allowances.
The hotline of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response, federal executive authorities, regions of the Russian Federation and various non-governmental organisations have received 29 requests 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, the database contains 2,759,076 appeals of this kind from 2,139 settlements in Ukraine and Kiev-controlled territories of the Donbas republics.
In addition, 70 foreign vessels from 16 countries remain blocked in six Ukrainian ports (Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhniy). The threat of shelling and high mine danger posed by official Kiev prevent vessels from entering the high seas unhindered.
As a result of a series of measures taken by the Russian Navy, the Mariupol harbour continues being under mine clearance works, the port infrastructure is routinely under reconstruction.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have created the necessary conditions for the operation of two maritime humanitarian corridors that constitute safe lanes for navigation:
in the Black Sea (every day from 08:00 AM to 07:00 PM) to leave Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhnyi ports towards south-west from Ukraine's territorial sea, 139 miles long and 3 miles wide;
in the Sea of Azov (uninterruptedly) to leave Mariupol port, 115 miles long and 2 miles wide, towards the Black Sea.
Detailed information on the modus operandi of the maritime humanitarian corridors is broadcast daily every 15 minutes by VHF radio on 14 and 16 international channels in English and Russian.
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.
In total, 3,764.11 ha of terrain, 35 buildings (including 13 socially important facilities), 2 bridges and 9.64 km of roads have been explored. 49,090 explosive remnants have been detected and neutralised.
Federal executive authorities, in coordination with the regions 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 Service of Court Baliffs, Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography, Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs;
the republics of Bashkortostan, the Chechen Republic, Crimea, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Sakha (Yakutia) and Tatarstan, as well as Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Leningrad, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Primorie, Rostov, Samara, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Tula, Voronezh and Yaroslavl regions, the Khanty-Mansi autonomous region, as well as the cities of 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 Space Corporation 'Roscosmos' and the All-Russian Public State Organisation 'Union of Russian Women'.
Over 43.5 tonnes of prime necessity items, groceries, medication and medical products have been prepared at the collection points. Since March 2, 2022, 40,605.9 tonnes of humanitarian goods within 1,273 humanitarian campaigns; over the past 24 hours, the civilian population has been provided with 183.6 tonnes of humanitarian goods within 4 humanitarian campaigns held in the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, as well as in Kharkov region
On July 7, 2022, 5 humanitarian campaigns are being carried out in the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, in Kharkov and Kherson regions, during which 530 tonnes of basic necessities, medicine and food are distributed.