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UN food agency reaches Ukraine's Donetsk after three-month suspended humanitarian aid

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Core Tip: The World Food Programme (WFP) began to deliver food to the non-government-controlled areas in the Ukrainian eastern city of Donetsk after three-month suspension, a UN spokesman said here Tuesday.
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) began to deliver food to the non-government-controlled areas in the Ukrainian eastern city of Donetsk after three-month suspension, a UN spokesman said here Tuesday.

Two truck convoys, carrying enough food for nearly 16,000 people for one month, reached Donetsk in the past five days, Farhan Haq, the deputy UN spokesman, said at a daily news briefing here.

It is the first time that the UN humanitarian aid had reached these areas in three months.

"More convoys bringing food are being planned so that the total number of vulnerable people to receive assistance will be 20,000," he said.

"As another winter approaches, the humanitarian community is concerned about the needs of the most vulnerable people, especially those who had to flee their homes," Haq added.

During the last three months, WFP continued to provide food assistance to vulnerable people in government-controlled areas of both Donetsk and Luhansk, including areas near the frontline and in buffer-zone villages.

Humanitarian organizations face major challenges in getting access to the most vulnerable of an estimated five million people affected by the conflict that began in the region in April 2014.
 
 
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