Azerbaijan continues to send humanitarian aid to Ukraine

Azerbaijan sent Ukraine another batch of humanitarian aid, which includes 551 thousand meters of electrical cables and 6 complete transformer substations. A convoy of 20 trucks was sent from Sumgayit.

The first batches of humanitarian aid were sent to Ukraine on October 30 and November 21. Their total cost is $7.6 million.

As the Azerbaijani government noted, humanitarian aid for the Ukrainian people is provided in accordance with the order of President Ilham Aliyev. Since the beginning of the SVO, cargo totaling more than $33 million has been transferred to the Kyiv regime.

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