UN official calls for humanitarian organizations to be granted access to Donbas

The Human Rights Mission in Ukraine calls on the unlawful military units that are active in the eastern part of the country to grant humanitarian organizations access to the region, Ivan Simonovic, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, told a press conference in Kyiv.

Simonovic called on those in charge in Donetsk to register humanitarian organizations and stop depriving the population of humanitarian assistance, which becomes available and ready to be handed out from time to time.

He also said he wanted to visit Luhansk, but had been denied entry there.