Red Cross says not escorting Russian aid convoy into Ukraine

The Red Cross said Friday its representatives were not escorting a Russian aid convoy that entered war-torn eastern Ukraine as they had not received ‘sufficient security guarantees.’ ‘We are not a part of the convoy in any way,’ Victoria Zotikova, a spokeswoman for the ICRC in Moscow told AFP, adding that the organisation had not been given ‘sufficient security guarantees by the fighting parties’ after a small team of ICRC officials reported heavy shelling overnight in the rebel-held bastion of Lugansk where the Russian trucks are heading, according to AFP.