© RIA Novosti / Maksim BlinovTrucks of a Russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine, August, 22, 2014
Several dozen trucks in the Russian humanitarian convoy have crossed the Ukrainian border and started moving in the direction of Lugansk, after Moscow ordered the convoy to proceed, without waiting for further permission from Kiev.
Moscow has accused Kiev of deliberately holding up the delivery of Russian humanitarian aid to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine, according to a new statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
"Our convoy with humanitarian aid is starting to move in the direction of Lugansk," the Foreign Ministry's statement reads. "We are of course ready for it to be accompanied by Red Cross representatives and for their participation in the aid's distribution."
A third of the Russian humanitarian convoy, which is around 90 trucks, has now reportedly crossed the border with Ukraine.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is not escorting the convoy.
"That's because of the problems with security," Galina Balzamova of the ICRC told RT. "Lugansk was shelled all night long. We believe we did not get sufficient guarantees of safety from all the parties to the conflict to start escorting the convoy."
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