Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations

MOSCOW - Six workers from Serbia died in a fire that broke out at a building site on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia, and three were injured, Serbian Ambassador in Moscow Slavenko Terzic has said.

Russia sends another humanitarian convoy to Ukraine

MOSCOW -- The Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations has announced that it plans to send a new convoy of humanitarian aid to Donetsk and Lugansk in Ukraine.

A convoy of 50 trucks should depart from the town of Noginsk at 15:00 Moscow time, the ministry said, quoted by the TASS agency.

Russia sends aid to flood-affected areas of Bosnia

SARAJEVO -- A Russian airplane carrying 38 tons of humanitarian aid for the areas affected by the May floods landed on Thursday in Sarajevo.

MOSCOW - Two more planes of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations will deliver humanitarian aid to Serbia which was hit by the most severe floods in the past 120 years, Head of the Ministry's Centre for Crisis Management Oleg Voronov said.

NIS – An Ilyushin II-76 plane of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations carrying 70 rescuers landed at the airport in Nis, southern Serbia, on Friday morning.