29.07.2022 (21:30)
Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response
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 Artemovsk, Donetsk People's Republic, militants of nationalist battalions have equipped stronghold and ammunition depot in the building of medical college (Nosakova Street), the approaches to the educational institution are mined, but the local population is deliberately not informed of this;
in Berezovka, Odessa Region, buildings of the Higher Vocational School of the National Polytechnic University and the Agrarian Lyceum (Pobedy Street) host AFU servicemen, while artillery and armoured vehicles are deployed in the adjacent territory;
in Slavyansk, Donetsk People's Republic, AFU and territorial defence units are deployed in the buildings of Transport Infrastructure College (Gagarin Street), roadblocks and firing points are equipped on the approaches to the educational institution, and residents of nearby houses are forcibly detained in the premises under the pretext of allegedly ensuring security.
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.
In addition, according to operational information, militants of Ukrainian armed formations in Novopavlovka, Dnepropetrovsk Region, have mined a road bridge across the Solyonaya River, which they plan to blow up and accuse units of the Russian Armed Forces and the Donetsk People's Republic of allegedly indiscriminate strikes on transport infrastructure facilities.
We once again emphasize that during the special military operation, the Russian Armed Forces and military formations of Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics are not striking at civilian infrastructure facilities, are treating civilians extremely humanely and are providing civilians with comprehensive assistance and support.
Despite all the difficulties and obstacles imposed by the Ukrainian side, over the past day, without the participation of Kiev, 25,285 people were evacuated from dangerous areas, 3,557 of them children, and in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 2,949,811 people have already been evacuated, of which 467,354 are children.
The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 484,047 personal vehicles including 5,150 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 29 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 2,759,726 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. Thus, according to information published in open sources, on July 28, 2022, while measuring the depths of the fairway at the mouth of Danube River, the small geographical vessel Shlyakhovich (State Hydrographic Service of Ukraine) was blown up on a Ukrainian drifting mine.
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 5,968.92 hectares were checked, 87 buildings (including 13 socially important facilities), 4 bridges and 9.64 km of roads. 158,538 explosives were detected and defused, 6,800 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 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, 49,333.4 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to Ukraine, 1,379 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including 5 actions in Zaporozhye and Kharkov regions, as well as in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 364.6 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.
On July 29, 5 humanitarian actions have been planned and are currently being carried out in Kherson and Kharkov regions, in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 421.4 tons of basic necessities, medicine and food will be distributed.
