Today, January 9, the first humanitarian flight of Rinat Akhmetov left Donetsk from Donetsk to Donetsk. The first pillar of cars will deliver 260 tons of products for today's peaceful inhabitants - sugar, macaroni, cereals, oat flakes. In total, during January, the Headquarters plans to send 8,000 tons of products to the Donbas to form 500,000 humanitarian kits.

"It is extremely important for the Headquarters to implement this plan after blocking the humanitarian flight with battalions in late December - the population of Donbass, those unprotected categories of civilians, who are supported by the Akhmetov Humanitarian Headquarters , are waiting for this assistance," commented Maxim Rovinsky    , volunteer of the Humanitarian Staff of Rinat Akhmetov. - And this is the task that was put before the headquarters of Rinat Akhmetov - to help the peaceful population as much as possible. With such large volumes of humanitarian supplies, the Headquarters strictly monitors the quality of products in the sets - all of them are certified, on each package checked the shelf life. The headquarters only works with verified suppliers. In the part of the kilka is, for example, one of the best brands ("Aquamarine"). In the winter, the headquarters planned to replace canned fish with stew and thereby increase the calorie content of the sets, but blocking the goods in December prevented it. "

On the eve of the departure of the flight, Rinat Akhmetov's Humanitarian Headquarters sent letters with notification of the flight composition, number and number of cars in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, State Automobile Inspectorate, General Staff, SBU, Ministry of Defense, State Social Insurance Institution, Headquarters of the ATO, in Dnipropetrovsk OGA. The machines go with the necessary package of documents and the protocol of transparency.

Before shipping, the contents of the wagons and the accompanying documentation were verified by the representative of the battalion "Dnepr-1" in the presence of the media. Vyacheslav Pechenenko, commander of the battalion Dnepr-1: "We have all checked. The contents of the machines correspond to all documents. These are really essential foods - sugar, cereals, macaroni - for civilians. The cargo is sealed at us and will continue to be followed without inspections. "

Upon arrival at the Donbass Arena stadium, for each unit of humanitarian aid, stickers "Charity Aid. Not for sale ", then the products are packed in 14-kilogram packages. In the composition of each - sugar, flour, sunflower oil, cereals, pasta, canned meat and fish, condensed milk, cookies, corn.

Assistance is targeted at the most vulnerable categories of civilians in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.

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