LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) has started distributing food to eastern Ukraine where Ukrainian forces have been battling pro-Russian separatists, in its first operation in the country.
WFP said in a statement on Friday that it had already handed out 10,000 rations, enough to feed 2,000 people for five days. It said it planned to feed as many as 120,000 people over the next six months at a cost of $15 million (£9.2 million).
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