The Baku City Executive Power sent 30 tons of humanitarian aid to Kyiv residents. The press service of the Baku City Executive Power reported.
The supplies were collected by Baku district administrations and residents of the capital. The humanitarian aid mainly includes food and other necessities.
Baku and Kyiv are sister cities.
Recently, on February 26 and March 12, the Azerbaijani government sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine in two planes totalling 10.5 million euros.
Earlier, Vladislav Kanevsky, Ukraine's Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Azerbaijan, told reporters that “I want to express my gratitude to President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and all Azerbaijanis for providing us with humanitarian assistance at such a vital and trying moment for Ukraine.”
The envoy highlighted that the delivered cargo protects hundreds of civilian lives who are now under fire, noting that this is not Azerbaijan's first humanitarian help to Ukraine.
"Medicines, medical equipment, and food are all provided by Azerbaijan. For many years, Azerbaijan and Ukraine have shown this. We are friends as well as strategic partners," according to Kanevsky.
Azerbaijan’s support for Ukraine sparked dissatisfaction in Russia. After Baku’s pro-Ukraine remarks Russian Embassy twitter account in Baku shared a controversial post possibly trying to provoke separatism by stating “a group of Azerbaijani citizens from Lankaran honoured the memory of the Russian military who died during a special operation in Ukraine and handed over to the Russian Embassy in Azerbaijan a commemorative plaque with their portraits and a wreath. Thank you, Lankaran people.” A large percentage of Lankaran’s population are Talysh, one of the ethnic minorities within Azerbaijan.
