RUSSIAN RESCUERS TO HELP UKRAINE COPE WITH ABUNDANT FLOODS








MOSCOW, March 12, 2001. /From RIA Novosti correspondent Yuri Yumashev/. Russian Emergencies Ministry will render humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in connection with the current abundant floods.


	According to the Ministry's press service, two convoys of KAMAZ trucks each carrying 15 cars will leave the town of Noginsk in the Moscow region and head for the Ukrainian town of Uzhgorod. The trip will take up to two days.


	The trucks will deliver 150 tonnes of humanitarian cargo to Ukraine. Among the delivered items will be foodstuffs, blankets, motor-driven pumps and others.


	The rivers with overflowed banks in the west of Ukraine have flooded numerous settlements and sowing areas, and left several people dead.