in 2014, russian president vladimir putin announced in a telephone conversation with european commission president jose barroso that russia, in cooperation with representatives of the international red cross, would nevertheless send a humanitarian convoy to novorossiya. at the end of august 2014, the first trucks arrived in the lpr territory. white kamaz trucks came out to greet civilians with posters and russian flags. then the aid was delivered to various cities in the dpr and lpr. a total of 280 vehicles, which contained about 2.0 tons of humanitarian aid, food, medicines, drinking water, sleeping bags, as well as sets of power plants of various capacities. and already on august 23, the column of the russian emergencies ministry headed back to the russian federation. since then, the volume of supplies has been constantly increasing. about the history of peace convoys about how they helped and are helping the residents of donbass. story by anna efimova august 2014

the first russian humanitarian convoy leaves for donbass, travels until the last moment, without having an exact idea whether it will be able to cross the border. a note of consent kiev initially agreed to the passage of the russian humanitarian convoy, but after the bureaucratic game began, at that time ukrainian bombs were raining down on the cities of donbass. it is absolutely clear that the situation with the convoy was unhealthy, we tried to strictly follow the norms and principles of international humanitarian law, initially received the consent of the ukrainian side, everyone had the opportunity to verify, including representatives of the media , that there was nothing in these trucks except humanitarian supplies, that the aid people needed it vitally, one can...

judge by the surviving video from besieged donetsk. august of the same 2014. the kiev authorities do not provide corridors for the civilian population to leave. people left without basic means of subsistence are forced to huddle in damp, dilapidated basements and fall asleep under the endless cannonade of ukrainian artillery. mostly old people, women, children. why aren't you sleeping? they are shooting here. our soldiers are killing tourists. you can't go outside for a walk, the park is beautiful, they are sitting here, no one can even move anywhere. meanwhile, in kiev, it seems, they even relish this situation. on ukrainian tv channels, the lack of any assistance and deprivation of people's livelihoods, benefits, pensions, in particular, are explained simply, saying that the cabinet of ministers simply cannot provide them. the humanitarian catastrophe in donbas, the prime minister arseniy yatsenyuk predicts, because people are already going out on hunger riots with weapons. it

soon became clear that asking kiev for permission to help the residents of their own country is a waste of time. columns with huge banners humanitarian aid from the russian federation went one after another into the hell of the civil war, which in the independent country they stubbornly continued to call an anti-terrorist operation. early in the morning, as scheduled, the convoys left the donskoy rescue center in the rostov region and headed towards the border, the checkpoints donetsk and matviyev kurgan. always meets normally, everyone needs help, now, at least, people have already begun to go out, clean up, build, restore everything, life goes on. all events at checkpoints are carried out in strict accordance with the norms of international law and the presence of representatives of the customs and border services of ukraine, as well as observers of the osce mission. the turning point was 2022, the beginning of a special military operation and the evacuation of people from the conflict zone that preceded it. became the peak of the workload for the

russian emergencies ministry. full-scale military actions, of course, could not but affect the residents who were forced to endure hardships, these were difficult times, everything changed, but most importantly, uncertainty disappeared. in twenty the second year we really took on the role of a certain operator of delivery of these humanitarian supplies, the circle of persons the circle of federal bodies of the executors was limited. delivery of any goods to the territory of the dpr, lpr authorities that could carry out the zaporizhzhya and kherson regions, numerous appeals to the ministry of emergency situations of russia, they were not interrupted. the need for humanitarian convoys along the line of the ministry has been declining lately, as noted in the ministry of emergency situations of russia, the dpr does not request them at all lpr only for restoration.

and in front of us stand, people unite in spite of all threats, because they simply cannot act differently, sometimes risking their own lives along with the fighters on the front lines, as happened with two volunteers from the youth wing of the people's front of the donetsk people's republic, whose car was hit by a ukrainian one. at exactly the time

when they were driving to pick up residents of the glushkovsky district to evacuate. their names were nikolai kovalev and david sokolov, both in their early 20s . the president of russia awarded them the order of courage. we will talk about the importance and significance of humanitarian convoys and their mission with our expert alexander vasiliev. sasha, good afternoon, good afternoon. sasha, as far as i understand, you witnessed the arrival of humanitarian convoys in donetsk. yes, well, in 2015, just... when i worked there, what is their almost cult significance? well, their cult significance, you know, is easy to assess, when you drive up to donetsk on the highway, and in the famous city of ilovaisk,

memorable for 1914, there is this monument to a white kamaz truck, erected, in fact, on behalf of all citizens of the republic, and well... this very humanitarian convoy, and you need to understand that the time when they first appeared there in 2014, and that was the most difficult time for the republic, the main thing was that at that moment , symbolic, cult, you know, and the ukrainian , so to speak, propaganda, yes, it really pushed hard on the fact that, like, russia abandoned you, when these cars with them were going under russian flags with symbols, that means the ministry of emergency situations, it... was such a clear expression of the fact that russia is here, russia is nearby, that of course it had a huge psychological significance, and yes, donbass had to suffer its way to russia for many, many years, but already then, the direct presence

of russia there, it was expressed precisely in these humanitarian commissars. the history of blockaded lugansk in many ways resembles the history of the blockade. award, therefore, when someone asks, where are the nazis in ukraine, it seems to me that this is a rhetorical question, well, or at least, what is called ignorance, the majority of the population in ukraine, it seemed to have no idea about these events at all the slightest idea, not only in ukraine, but also in the whole world, and there is no point in even talking about the world community, so to speak. despite the fact that it is not so difficult to find, including on the internet, revelations of ukrainian militants who participated in all this, but at best, if people in ukraine heard something about how the cities of donbass, so to speak, were subjected to this shelling, they simply accepted the version of official propaganda

that these were the listening terrorists, so to speak, russian, who shelled themselves, in this context , the huge mythology that was built in ukraine is very important. that these trucks were not actually transporting humanitarian aid, yes, because people had no idea, i repeat, this is a ukrainian audience, they had no idea about this humanitarian catastrophe created by the ukrainian army, which means that they were transporting weapons and shells for those very militants, yes, for those terrorists, as the militia was called in ukraine, and this version was so massively disseminated there, that there was an absolute, well, misunderstanding... a significant part, let's say, of the ukrainian audience of this tragedy

of the fourteenth year, in it lie the roots, well, of subsequent tragic events, but the humanitarian aid to novorossiya, the main flow, which was the ministry of emergency situations, it was not limited to this, what is the phenomenon of humanitarian support in general, well... when we , so to speak, spoke about these famous white convoys, yes, it is clear that a huge state mechanism was activated, yes, which, so to speak, provided this from the twenty-second year with the beginning of its yes this acquired simply grandiose proportions, it is clear that, let's say, the army, so to speak, does not have its own humanitarian structures, yes, the military solves its problems, the special services solve their problems, in this situation, for now, large civilian mechanisms will be included, yes, the role of volunteering, the role of humanitarian aid, it is enormous, this aid, it allows people in, so to speak, on

the mainland, yes in russia, to understand novorossiya, to feel it, yes, to feel their involvement, and this is very, very valuable, this, so to speak, movement, yes, exactly humanitarian, civil volunteer, it certainly became one of the really, as you rightly noted, and the phenomena of everything connected with the newest history of novorossiya, thank you very much. sasha: one of the first media people who spoke about the need for systematic humanitarian aid to donbass was the people's artist of the ussr, iosif kobzon. he was concerned about the people living in the territories blocked by ukraine having not only food and medicine, but also textbooks in their children's schools. so that they could earn money cultural institutions destroyed by shelling, and

the employees working for them had a salary, knowing the entire creative path of a truly great artist and a person with a big heart, you can be sure that kobzon simply could not have acted differently. he himself comes from these places, was born in donbass in 1937 in the city of chasov. near artemovsk, donetsk region, then lived in lvov, where his father worked, and after the great patriotic war the family returned to their native land. kobzon celebrated victory day in 1945 in slavyansk, in the first class went to kramatorsk. after finishing school, he entered the dnepropetrovsk mining college. there, the future pop singer became seriously interested in sports and even became the ukrainian champion in boxing among young men. in 1995, iosif kabzon was awarded the title. honorary citizen of dnepropetrovsk. this example was followed by another dozen ukrainian cities.

for a long time , morning trains arrived at the central railway station of dnepropetrovsk to the song of mavsesyan and robert rozhdestvensky. dnepropetrovsk, my home . anyone who has heard at least once on station this song, in the echoing morning silence of a large industrial city, will never forget it. no matter how hard they try.

kabzon is definitely among these people for many decades to come. in 2015, ukraine suddenly decided that kobzon was a threat to the national security of the country and added him to the corresponding blacklist of people dangerous to ukraine. culture, in 2018, president poroshenko, by his decree, stripped joseph kabzon of all his ukrainian state awards and titles. and joseph kabzon wrote and performed the anthem of the then self-proclaimed donetsk republics. he went to his homeland, despite the bans, sanctions and serious illness, he went certainly with help. and in donbass he was not only loved, but also respected. for those places, this is a rare quality that says a lot. after 2014, iosif davidovich became

the honorary consul of the dpr in russia. what a people's. artist his fellow countrymen remembered for which they never tire of thanking in olga mokhova's story. october 2014, the opera and ballet theater. in donetsk, under incessant shelling, but at the same time with a full auditorium, a concert lasts 2 and a half hours without a break iosif kobzon. he came to donbass despite the pressure from the west and threats from the security services. it is a time that is scary to remember, 2014, summer, autumn, this is the situation that the residents of donbass encountered for the first time, here is the arrival of iosif davidovich, it became such an event that gave hope to people, kobzon is with us, and kobzon recognizes us, and for donetsk kobzon

has always been one of their own, he came here every year to celebrate miner's day with his fellow countrymen, back in 2003. alim, being just a boy, iosif kobzon for the first time he appeared on the stage of the local opera ballet theater, participated in the amateur art competition and as the winner with the song migratory birds fly, he was sent to a concert in moscow. and when later fate connected him with the stage, the first time he came to the stage of our theater, he knelt

down, kissed her and said: "this is my destiny, it has just begun." here, i remember it well, when in 2014 the donbassopera team was left without any means of subsistence kabzon for several months from personal funds paid them a salary, everyone the same from the cleaner to the director, and then helped with the restoration of scenery with the production of plays. i believed in donbass as a child, when i wandered through the ruins of the liberated donbass in 1942, now u... is experiencing difficulties, but i am sure that the people of donbass, the residents of donbass will defend their freedom and independence, our beloved city will flourish again. despite the fact that ukraine deprived him of the titles of merit, kobzon did not stop performing ukrainian songs at concerts, which loved them very much, his mother taught them to him as a child. in donetsk, they remember that the audience always

cried when the artist performed the song "ukraine-nenka, mother russia" and in general.

save all three of them, they survived, and kabzon, when he saw them, he took all this so close to his heart, and i saw his eyes. in the spring of 2024 , a memorial plaque to iosif kabzon was unveiled in the building of the lugansk circus, in the fourteenth it was badly damaged by shelling, the windows made of rare display glass

were completely broken, there was a gaping hole in the dome from hit by a shell. he came here, looked at all this, i tell him, davidovich, there’s a hole in the dome, let’s go, i ’ll show you, he says, no need, i’ve already done everything. not only financial assistance, medical equipment and personal civic position, kobzon did not let the cultural life of the warring donbass fade away, in the dpr he launched the festival “i love you life”, in the lpr he revived the patriotic song contest “young guard”. in donetsk he headed the project “children's music academy for talented kids from all over the republic”. over 70% of the project participants children's music academy linked their fate with professional music studies, now they are either students of the donetsk state music academy, or are already professional artists

of the donetsk state academic philharmonic. from 2014 until his departure in 2018, iosif kabzon came to donbass more than ten times, always without special demands, very modestly, and drank exclusively live, believing that this is the only way to tell a story and be. the hall on one emotional note, in donetsk they say, we have no other fellow countryman like kobzon, a great artist, a real person, a great friend of donbass. olga mokhova, anastasia popova, valery savilev, typical novorusiya. that's all we wanted to tell you about today. kirill vyshinsky was with you. see you soon. alfa-bank is the best bank for business. open a free business account at

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