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Humanitarian convoy. Right or wrong?

The last couple of weeks the tension between Ukraine and Russia has risen to an extreme height. The civil war in the East of Ukraine and the pressure that is laid upon both sides is huge. Russia is being sanctioned by the European Union while Russia boycotts our vegetable market. In the last weeks there seemed to be a little advance in the agreements made between Ukraine and Russia. There would be a convoy of Russian truck which would deliver humanitarian sustain to the areas which were closed in by the separatists and the Ukrainian Army.   It all seemed to be going the right way until the trucks came to the border of Ukraine, all the trucks would have to be checked on military material. Putin claimed that this was a strategic uphold of the Ukraine government. While on the other hand the Ukrainian government does not want Russia to support the separatists with weapons or any other material. Finally there was some movement of trucks crossing the bo...