The FINANCIAL — The EU is increasing its humanitarian response to help refugees that fled to Belarus from the crisis in eastern Ukraine, with a contribution of €300,000, which will be given directly to the Belarus Red Cross, through the International federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
“It’s essential that humanitarian aid gets to all vulnerable people affected by the conflict in Ukraine. There are around 160,000 refugees that fled the conflict in Eastern Ukraine into Belarus,” said Andrea Wiktorin, Head of the EU Delegation to Belarus.
The funding will help the Belarus Red Cross in delivering food, hygiene and health assistance to the most vulnerable refugees. The emergency decision comes as an answer to the IFRC’s renewed emergency appeal for funding Ukrainian refugees in Belarus, according to EU Neighbourhood Info.
The new funding brings the Commission’s total humanitarian and early recovery assistance to vulnerable people hit by the conflict in Ukraine to over €74.33 million.
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