The United Nations says that its first humanitarian convoy has reached the area around Soledar, which has seen some of the fiercest fighting in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks. "Our colleagues in Ukraine have just reached government-controlled areas close to Soledar in eastern Donetsk Oblast," Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the UN humanitarian agency OCHA, told reporters in Geneva on January 20. He said that the three-truck convoy was carrying food, water, hygiene kits, and medical supplies for 800 people.
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