Russia sends 280 trucks with humanitarian aid to Ukraine

Ukraine crisis

MOSCOW - A Russian convoy of 280 trucks carrying humanitarian aid has left for Ukraine on Tuesday morning, Itar Tass news agency reported.

"It has all been agreed with Ukraine," Business FM radio quoted President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, as saying.

Russian state television Rossiya 24 showed several heavy white trucks departing from the town of Alabino near Moscow.

A Rossiya 24 correspondent at the scene said the convoy should arrive at the Ukrainian border in two to three days where it would meet a representatives of the ICRC.

Russia has said the aid would be delivered together with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

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