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Monday, June 12, 2023
Israel sending food and water to flooded Ukraine region
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Israel is sending hundreds of thousands of liters of water and over 10 tons of food to the Kherson area in Ukraine to help victims of the attack on the Khakovka Dam.
The locally purchased aid, a joint initiative of the embassy in Kyiv and Mashav, will be delivered today by Ukrainian organizations that work with the embassy.
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who was personally involved in the project, says that “Israel will continue to help Ukraine and its citizens.”
“We see this as a supreme moral value,” he says.
Israel is providing substantial humanitarian assistance to the people of #Kherson following the deliberate destruction of #KakhovkaDam. @IsraelinUkraine and @MASHAVisrael have sent to the area above 200,000 liters of drinking water and about 10 tons of canned food. The assistance… pic.twitter.com/V3IgSQ85wt
— Amb. Michael Brodsky (@michael_brodsk) June 12, 2023
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