A truck convoy loaded up with Chinese aid destined for western Ukraine prepares to leave Romania. (CHINESE EMBASSY IN ROMANIA via China Daily/Asia News Network)
BEIJING – The first batch of Chinese humanitarian aid has reached Ukraine.
The consignment, which includes 1,000 family kits containing daily supplies worth 5 million yuan ($800,000), crossed the Ukraine-Romania border on Friday, having being delivered by plane to Bucharest Airport.
The packs contain blankets, towels, cutlery, damp-proof mats, buckets and torches, and were sent from Beijing by the Red Cross Society of China.
Ukraine’s Red Cross Society will receive the consignment when the truck convoy containing the aid arrives in the western Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi.
A second batch of materials will leave the Chinese capital on Sunday.
Evacuation
Meanwhile, another group of Chinese citizens evacuated from Ukraine arrived in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang province at 9:51 am on Saturday.
Prior to that, ten temporary flights taking Chinese nationals back from Ukraine have already returned to China safely.
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