KYIV. June 25 (Interfax) - Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has claimed that the 'armed adversaries' of the Kyiv authorities fired under-barrel grenade launchers and small arms on a humanitarian convoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) near a checkpoint outside the village of Berezove in the Donetsk region's Volnovakha district.
"Fourteen trucks and a car of the mission were returning from Donetsk after delivering humanitarian aid to the civilian population of the territories temporarily occupied by terrorists. None of the Red Cross representatives was hurt. Their vehicles were not damaged," according to a report posted on the SBU website on Thursday.
The SBU said, citing Red Cross representatives, that the humanitarian convoy had been shelled from the direction of the DPR militia forces. All participants in this humanitarian mission are in a safe place now.
"Officers of Ukraine's Security Service are promptly documenting the shelling of the Red Cross convoy by the terrorists," SBU said in its report.