Red Cross sets up international aid supply network for Ukraine


  • World
  • Friday, 25 Feb 2022

BERLIN (Reuters) - The international Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is setting up a logistics hub in Budapest to bring aid supplies to Ukraine following Russia's invasion, and is making preparations for an influx of refugees, the German Red Cross said on Friday.

"We are preparing a really big operation," Christof Johnen, head of international cooperation at the German Red Cross, told Reuters in an interview, adding that the confusing dynamics of the conflict made it extremely difficult to plan a response.

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