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.

新闻背景：

俄罗斯于当地时间12日派出280辆载有俄方人道主义援助物资的卡车前往受到战争摧残的乌克兰东部城市，遭乌克兰拒绝。此举引发一场有关救助乌克兰东部民众的激烈外交纷争。

乌克兰方面表示，任何外界援助都需要得到乌克兰政府批准，援助物资也必须由红十字会(Red Cross)来发放。基辅还警告称，莫斯科单方面提供的救援或会被认为是“侵犯行为”。

国际红十字会则称，俄罗斯尚未提供救援物资以及安全保障的信息。国际红十字会发言人阿纳斯塔西娅·伊休克表示，俄方已经提供用于向乌转交人道主义援助的文件，但运送物资还需弄清一系列问题。

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.