Russia sends 32nd ‘humanitarian convoy’ to Ukraine (VIDEO)

Convoys mainly used for delivering Russian arms and smuggling Ukrainian assets across border

Korupciya.world reports citing  UT

Russia has announced another so-called 'humanitarian convoy' to Ukraine. Moscow claims the trucks are carrying aid for people in Ukraine's Donbas region. It is the 32nd such convoy that has crossed into Ukraine without permission from the Ukrainian government.

Ukraine says Russia sends its convoys into Ukraine without permission from the Ukrainian government. It has previously said that Ukrainian border guards were only permitted to carry out visual inspections from behind a fence.

The Russian ministry said the convoy of over 100 vehicles is carrying more than 1,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid, including food and medicine.

Ukraine claims that the convoys are also carry supplies for the Russian-backed militants that have seized control from the local authorities in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Ukraine has lost control of a section of its border with Russia more than 400 kilometers long.

The convoys have never crossed into Ukraine via a Ukrainian-controlled checkpoint, and only ever visit the parts of Ukraine were armed militants have seized control.

Ukraine says the convoys are also used to transport back to Russia the bodies of Russian troops, volunteers and mercenaries killed in fighting in Ukraine, as well as equipment taken from Ukrainian industry in the region.

The Ukrainian military also says the arrivals of the "aid convoys" coincide with upsurges in militant attacks on Ukrainian positions along the front line in the following days.