Britain said on Saturday it would fund 2 million pounds ($2.6 million) worth of vital food supplies for areas of Ukraine which are encircled by Russian forces following a direct request from the Ukrainian government.
Highlights
- Britain said on Saturday it would fund 2 million pounds ($2.6 million) worth of vital food supplies for areas of Ukraine encircled by Russian forces.
- Britain said around 25 truckloads of dried food, tinned goods and water will be transported by road and rail from warehouses in Poland and Slovakia to the most at-risk Ukrainian towns and cities.
- Worst hit has been the eastern port of Mariupol, a city of 400,000 under siege since the war’s early days.
- Tens of thousands of people are still believed to be trapped inside with no access to food, power or heating.
- Read more at the UK Foreign Office’s Humanitarian Adviser Alice Hooper.