Russo-Ukraine War: EU sets up Moldova relief warehouse for refugees
More than 1,200 tents and 4,000 blankets are due to be delivered this week to people who have been displaced by the war, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
The European Union (EU) is setting up a warehouse in Moldova for relief supplies for refugees fleeing Russia's war on Ukraine.
More than 1,200 tents and 4,000 blankets are due to be delivered this week to people who have been displaced by the war, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
"With Russian military aggression on Ukraine unfolding in a devastatingly brutal way, the humanitarian needs of the civilians affected are growing exponentially,'' Janez Lenarčič, Commissioner for Crisis Management has said.
So far, the war has forced more than 4.5 million people to flee to neighbouring countries such as Hungary, Moldova, Poland and Slovakia, with most of them women and children.
The commission said the crisis caused by the Russia-Ukraine war had led to the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world.
Moldova, an impoverished country south of Ukraine, has been receiving growing support from EU states for refugees, with Germany, Hungary and the Netherlands sending medical materials.