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* Convoy departs from near Moscow, has to travel 1,000 km. * West warns against using help as a pretext for invasion. * Kiev says will not allow Russian military escort for convoy. * Convoy will be accompanied in Ukraine by OSCE-Ukraine mediator (Adds new overnight government casualties, ICRC comment) By Pavel Polityuk and Dmitry Zhdannikov. |
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KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian convoy of trucks carrying tonnes of humanitarian aid left on Tuesday for eastern Ukraine, where government forces are closing in on pro-Russian rebels, but Kiev said it would not allow the vehicles to cross onto its territory. |
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The priest contracted Ebola at the Saint Joseph Hospital in Monrovia where he worked with infected patients. |
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Kiev and Western governments warned Moscow against any attempt to turn the operation into a military intervention by stealth in a region facing a humanitarian crisis after four months of warfare. "This cargo will be reloaded onto other transport vehicles (at the border) by the Red Cross," Ukrainian presidential aide Valery Chaly told journalists. |
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An elderly Spanish priest became the first European to die from a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak on Tuesday, succumbing to the virus in a Madrid hospital five days after being evacuated from Liberia. |
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Russian said a humanitarian convoy which is heading to eastern Ukraine from Russia would cross the border only under the aegis of the Red Cross. |
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Ukraine says a Russian humanitarian convoy dispatched to eastern Ukraine, where government forces are closing in on pro-Russian rebels, will not be permitted into the country. |
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KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian convoy of trucks carrying tonnes of humanitarian aid left on Tuesday for eastern Ukraine, where government forces are closing in on pro-Russian rebels, but Kiev said it would not allow the vehicles to cross onto its territory. |
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Russian said a humanitarian convoy which is heading to eastern Ukraine from Russia would cross the border only under the aegis of the Red Cross. |
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A Russian convoy carrying food, water and other aid set off on Tuesday for eastern Ukraine, where government forces are closing in on pro-Russian rebels, but Kiev said it would not allow the vehicles to cross onto its territory. |