A large cargo of medical and humanitarian aid was recently collected and delivered to Ukraine by the Israeli international humanitarian aid organization IsraAID and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Israel-Ukraine.
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A total of 31 pallets weighing 9 tons (19,841 pounds) were delivered to the city of Kharkiv on July 6, the Ukrainian embassy in Israel announced on its Facebook page.
The cargo contained tourniquets, bandages, occlusive dressings, chest seals, surgical packs, hygiene kits and diapers. The embassy said these items "will help save the lives of Ukrainians who are suffering from the horrors of the Russian invasion."
On its own Facebook post, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry thanked the individuals and companies who donated items for the cargo sent to help Ukrainians affected by the war.
IsraAID's Emergency Response team has been working over the last several months in some of the worst affected cities in Ukraine during the country's ongoing war with Russia.
The organization delivered more than 700 kilograms (1,543 pounds) of rice and 300 kilograms (661 pounds) of tuna last week to Ukrainian cities severely affected by food shortages. IsraAID has also been operating for the last four months in a tent at the Moldova-Ukraine border to welcome and help Ukrainian refugees fleeing their home country.
Russian missiles struck the city of Vinnytsia Thursday, killing 12 people and wounding 25 more in what Ukraine's president called "an open act of terrorism" on the country's civilian population in areas with no military value.
Ukraine's national police said three missiles hit an office building and damaged nearby residential buildings in the city located southwest of the capital Kyiv. The missile strike ignited a fire that expanded to engulf 50 cars in an adjacent parking lot.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a child was among the dead. He suggested the attack was deliberately aimed at terrorizing civilians.
"Every day Russia is destroying the civilian population, killing Ukrainian children, directing missiles at civilian objects. Where there is no military (targets). What is it if not an open act of terrorism?" Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
The Vinnytsia strike came after Ukraine's presidential office reported the deaths of five civilians and the wounding of another eight in Russian attacks over the past day.
Also on Wednesday, North Korea recognized two Russian-backed breakaway "people's republics" in eastern Ukraine as independent states.
The move makes North Korea the third country after Russia and Syria to recognize the two breakaway entities - the Donetsk (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republics in Ukraine's Donbas region.
North Korea's Embassy in Moscow confirmed it recognized the independence of both entities on Wednesday, Russia's TASS news agency later reported.
Ukraine immediately severed relations with Pyongyang over the move.
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