Chinese Red Cross sends second batch of aid to Ukraine

The second batch of Chinese humanitarian aid to Ukraine has left Beijing on Saturday, including food, sleeping bags and damp-proof mats.

The packs, sent by the Red Cross Society of China, are expected to arrive at Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport in Hungary and move from there to Ukraine.

The consignment will be given to Ukraine's Red Cross Society to help local people.

It is the second such consignment sent from Beijing to Ukraine by the society.

The first batch of Chinese humanitarian aid arrived in Ukraine on Friday. The consignment, which includes 1,000 family kits containing daily supplies worth 5 million yuan ($800,000), crossed the Ukraine-Romania border on Friday, having been delivered by plane to Bucharest Airport.

The packs contain blankets, towels, cutlery, damp-proof mats, buckets and torches.

Ukraine's Red Cross Society will receive the consignment when the truck convoy containing the aid arrives in the western Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi.