The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry has sent food aid to South Ossetia, Itar-Tass quoted the ministry's information department as saying. A 30-truck auto convoy left the city of Noginsk in the Moscow region at four in the morning on Saturday. He trucks carry a 120-ton humanitarian cargo for refugees and residents of South Ossetia. It includes canned meat and fish, buckwheat and baby food. The convoy is heading for Vladikavkaz, North Ossatia, from which the aid will be delivered to Tskhinvali. Humanitarian aid is also coming to North Ossetia from rescue services of southern Russia, a spokesperson at the Southern Regional Center of the Emergency Situations Ministry told ITAR-TASS. Besides, the ministry's plane transported food, medicines, medical equipment, physicians and a hospital of the Russian Center of Disaster Medicine from Moscow to Vladikavkaz on Friday.
