Admission of humanitarian goods to Ukraine will be conducted in strict compliance with the Ukrainian legislation and international law, as well as the approaches used by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Logistics support of the international humanitarian mission, including delivery and distribution, will be provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross and Ukraine.

Humanitarian aid will be distributed among the civilian population of the Luhansk region, which for a long time has been suffering from the actions of illegal armed groups and terrorism. Such approach is conditioned by repeated violations of the state border of Ukraine by the Russian side and delivery of arms and military equipment to the pro-Russian terrorists in eastern Ukraine.

Russia has recognized this help itself. On June 12, 2014, during his meeting with OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov admitted that the Russian Federation was assisting separatists.  Lavrov said that Russia was supplying “humanitarian aid” with the assistance of volunteers.

At the same time, the leader of the terrorists in eastern Ukraine Igor Girkin (Strelkov) specified the kind of this assistance in the social network: “Yesterday humanitarian aid from Russia reached Slovyansk. Thanks for bulletproof helmets with high degree of protection. This is exactly what our guys need when they are crawling in the trenches under sniper fire.”