Ukraine: Red Cross Urged To Reject Russia Convoy

Diplomats fear Russia is using the aid convoy as a way of deepening its involvement in the civil war, Sky exclusively reveals.

新聞背景：

俄羅斯于當地時間12日派出280輛載有俄方人道主義援助物資的卡車前往受到戰爭摧殘的烏克蘭東部城市，遭烏克蘭拒絕。此舉引發一場有關救助烏克蘭東部民眾的激烈外交紛爭。

烏克蘭方面表示，任何外界援助都需要得到烏克蘭政府批準，援助物資也必須由紅十字會(Red Cross)來發放。基輔還警告稱，莫斯科單方面提供的救援或會被認為是“侵犯行為”。

國際紅十字會則稱，俄羅斯尚未提供救援物資以及安全保障的信息。國際紅十字會發言人阿納斯塔西婭·伊休克表示，俄方已經提供用于向烏轉交人道主義援助的文件，但運送物資還需弄清一系列問題。

The convoy is at least 3 kilometers long and consists of 280 trucks, it set off from Moscow yesterday and is heading for the Ukraine border, hoping to end just north of Karkiv or on a route further east that's a journey of 620 miles, if it gets through, it's expected to travel to Luhansk, Russia says it's carrying 2,000 tons of humanitarian aid, this they say includes cereal, sugar, baby food, medical equipment and medicine, 12,000 sleeping bags and 69 generators. Thousands of people are believed to be short of water, electricity and medical aid in Donetsk and in the border town of Luhansk due to the bitter fighting there. The UN says the number of dead in the Ukraine conflict has doubled to more than 2,000 in just the two weeks between the end of July and the start of August.