The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry will sent the 11th humanitarian convoy to Donetsk and Luhansk on January 8, Viktor Yatsutsenko, the chief of the Emergency Situations Ministry's national center of crisis situations management, said at a ministry conference call on Saturday.

"The sending of the 11th humanitarian convoy to the people of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine is planned for January 8," Yatsutsenko said.

The convoy will consist of 120 vehicles carrying more than 1,400 tonnes of humanitarian cargo chiefly including food products.