Eastern Ukraine: Humanitarian disaster looms as food aid blocked

Headline Title: Eastern Ukraine: Humanitarian disaster looms as food aid blocked 24 December 2014 Pro-Kyiv volunteer battalions are increasingly blocking humanitarian aid into eastern Ukraine in a move which will exacerbate a pending humanitarian crisis in the run up to Christmas and New Year, said Amnesty International. “As winter sets in, the already desperate situation in eastern Ukraine is being made even worse by the volunteer battalions preventing food aid and medicine from reaching those in need. It is no secret that the region is facing a humanitarian disaster…

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