Sixty Tons of Red Cross Aid Arrives in Kharkiv

Sixty tons of aid was delivered to the city of Kharkiv by the International Committee of the Red Cross, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Red Cross said it brought aid to the eastern city on March 26, which included food, water, and essential hygiene items. The aid was to be distributed by the Ukrainian Red Cross to civilians including those taking shelter in the city’s metro.

“Today we are in Kharkiv with the ICRC team where we distributed 60 tons of food and non-food items for the people who have suffered from the terrible consequences of the shelling on the city. This humanitarian assistance will be distributed by the Ukrainian Red Cross Society. This has been put in their warehouse for further allocation to the people in need who took, for instance, took shelter in the metro station of Kharkiv. We hope to continue this distribution assistance through them for the benefit of the civilians who are in need of assistance from all possible natures and the ICRC is there to support them,” Maxime Zabaloueff from the ICRC says in this video. Credit: ICRC via Storyful

Video Transcript

[ENGINE NOISE] [CHATTER] - So today we are in Kharkiv with the ICRC team, where we distributed 60 tons of food and non-food items for the people who have suffered from the terrible consequences of the shelling on this city. This help-- humanitarian assistance will be distributed by the Ukrainian Red Cross Society. This has been put in their warehouse for further allocation to the people in need, those for-- who took, for instance, take shelter in the metro station of Kharkiv. We hope to continue this distribution assistance for them for the benefit of the civilians who are in need of assistance from all possible nature. And the ICRC is there to support them. [CHATTER]