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Deutsche Bahn launches own logistics network for delivery of humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

The German concern Deutsche Bahn has organized a logistics network of road and rail components for the delivery of humanitarian aid from Germany to Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine press service has said.

DB Schenker and DB Transa-Spedition collect and truck cargo to the Berlin hub, where the cargo is packed into containers and then transported by DB Cargo freight train to Poland for further transportation to Ukraine.

On the night of Friday, March 11, the first train loaded with 15 containers left the Seddin marshalling yard near Berlin.

They contain sleeping bags, mats, diapers, canned food, drinking water, warm clothes and baby food, as well as medical products such as syringes, plasters, gauze bandages.

In total, in this way, some 350 tonnes of humanitarian aid will be delivered to Ukraine.

The project is implemented due to the cooperation between the Polish branch of DB Cargo, Ukrzaliznytsia and the DB Schenker team at the site in Poland.

DB has also set up a hotline for a "railway bridge" in Ukraine. There you can register the cargo, as well as coordinate its transportation.

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Zelenskyy holds meeting in Dnipro

Zelenskyy holds meeting in Dnipro

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived with a working visit to Dnipro where he held a meeting on the security situation and protection of the critical infrastructure.

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Terrified Russian soldiers flee as Ukrainian kamikaze drones hunt them down.

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Former juvenile detainees seek justice over alleged sex abuse.

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'No comment' from defence secretary after another Tory MP loses whip.

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Mark Menzies MP has lost the Conservative Party whip after allegedly misusing party funds. Mr Menzies denied claims in The Times newspaper that he asked party members for money and then repaid them using campaign funds. Defence Secretary Grant Sha...

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Watch live: Leaders arrive in Brussels for the EU Summit focused on economic and social issues.

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