Ukraine humanitarian ceasefire may be possible in coming weeks: UN aid chief

Martin Griffiths, United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, said Monday that a humanitarian ceasefire in Ukraine is “not on the horizon right now” but could be possible in the coming weeks.

He added that Russia is “not putting local ceasefires at the top of their agenda.”

Griffiths met senior officials in Moscow and Kyiv this month to discuss UN ‘aspirations” for humanitarian ceasefires and ways to improve a system to notify both sides of evacuation and humanitarian supply movements.

UN aid officials are planning to dispatch a humanitarian convoy in the next couple of days into the eastern Donetsk region, where Russia-backed separatists declared a republic, and from there aid supplies would go to Luhansk, another separatist region, he said.

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