Kyiv is considering the possibility of providing humanitarian assistance to Russia in connection with the floods in Kuban region, according to the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine.
"At the moment, we are working through the issue of providing humanitarian assistance to the Russian Federation", director of the Foreign Ministry's information policy department of Oleh Voloshyn said at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday.
It was reported earlier that a severe flood in the early hours of July 7 hit the towns of Gelendzhik, Novorossiisk, Krymsk and several villages in the Krasnodar Territory, killing over 170 people.
The flood completely destroyed 400 houses in Gelendzhik and Novorossiisk, as well as the villages of Divnomorskoye, Nizhnebakanskaya, Niberdzhayevskaya and Kabardinka in Krasnodar Territory. A total of 29,000 lost all of their property, while 5,500 more are left without essentials. Some 767 people, including 159 children, are staying at temporary camps in the disaster zone.
