“The UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration have provided some urgent assistance, including hygiene items for children and women, as well as food.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has announced that more assistance is expected, in particular blankets and warm clothing.
The department is in talks to provide more regular access, ”TASS quotes him.
Earlier, the Acting Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, in a conversation with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, stressed the need to provide humanitarian assistance to refugees in the republic.
According to the assistant to the President of Belarus in the Grodno region, Yuri Karaev, mattresses are promptly brought to the logistics center for migrants, and pearl barley porridge is prepared in six field kitchens, and dry closets are installed on the streets.
In addition, about 2 thousand blankets and pillows were sent to it through the Red Cross.
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry noted that the country bears significant costs from the stay of migrants from the Middle East: Belarus spends funds on setting up tents for heating and bringing firewood to migrants.