Ukraine appreciates support of international community in protecting people in Donbas - Shmyhal

07.04.2020 13:59

Ukrinform

Ukraine is very grateful to the international community for the assistance in protecting people living near the contact line in Donbas.

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal wrote this on Twitter.

“People on the contact line faced with a double threat. Help is very important to them. Ukraine appreciates the support of the international community and its contribution to the protection of people in Donbas,” he wrote.

The prime minister also shared a post of NGO Proliska that says “Mission Proliska under UNHCR funding purchased equipment and materials for sewing individual masks in 14 settlements on the contact line. Representatives of communities will provide them free of charge to doctors and employees of strategic enterprises of Donbas”.

As Ukrinform reported, on March 12, 2020, the quarantine was introduced in Ukraine to fight the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19.

On March 25, the Ukrainian government ordered the extension of quarantine measures in the country until April 24.

As of 9 a.m. on April 7, Ukraine had 1,462 laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 cases, including 45 deaths.