From the beginning of the hostilities in South Ossetia Russian Federation took necessary steps to improve the humanitarian situation in the Republic.
On August 9, 2008 Russian government sent a humanitarian aid convoy from Russia's North Ossetian city of Vladikavkaz to Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, the Emergency Situation Minister said on Sunday.
"Tomorrow we will send 200 tons of food, 16 tons of medical supplies, six electricity generators and water filters," Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting in North Ossetia. He also said that a mobile hospital would be sent to South Ossetia. Earlier the Emergency Situations Ministry sent 30 trucks containing 120 tons of food supplies to Tskhinvali and North Ossetia.
Two aeromobile hospitals were deployed in the Northern Ossetia, the doctors made more than
44 surgical operations. The group of doctors, which composed of 25 medic experts, has arrived from Moscow in Vladikavkaz capital of the Northern Ossetia for rendering medical aid to the refugees from Ossetia.
On August 10, 2008 120 tons of food, including meat and fish tinned, buckwheat, baby food has been sent for inhabitants of the South Ossetia.
On August 11, 2008 Russian humanitarian aid convoy entered South Ossetia's capital of Tskhinvali, devastated after major ground and air attacks launched by Georgia to seize control of the rebel republic. "The first cargo with humanitarian aid has arrived at its destination," a source in the Russian Federal Reserve Agency said. The convoy of 80 vehicles, accompanied by several armored personal carriers, has brought medical supplies, food, generators and other essentials to the capital of the republic.
Russia has sent 41 generators and 226 metric tons of food supplies, 39 tons of medical supplies, 23 water filters to South Ossetia, the source in the federal agency said, and admitted that more humanitarian aid could be sent to the region, including tinned meat and fish, buckwheat, baby food.
In the hospitals which located in various Russian regions has been created 2700 new places for wounded population.
Pavel Plat, a chief military expert at Russia's emergencies ministry, said mobile hospitals delivered by the convoy already started treating their first patients today. Work will also be carried out on Tskhinvali's hospital, which was almost completely destroyed by Georgian bombs, he said. Over a hundred injured people are currently being treated in makeshift wards in the hospital's cellars.
Tskhinvali, which had a pre-war population of around 30,000, will also receive tents capable of housing 500 people, Plat said.
The heads of a number of Russian universities (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Voronezh) are ready to accept students from South Ossetia, Russian Education Minister Andrei Fursenko said. "A number of regions have proposed using their facilities to house and teach South Ossetian young people," Fursenko said, describing the situation in Georgia's region as a humanitarian catastrophe. The minister added that Russian authorities would also discuss a longer-term plan for supporting and restoring educational establishments in South Ossetia.
Russia has also sent around seventy 20-seater mini buses to South Ossetia to evacuate people from the region.
On August 12, 2008 6 operation-rooms and airmobile hospital for 200 places, 500 tents for refugees whom lost housing habitation, 150 tons food has been sent to South Ossetia.
Russia's government has allocated $200 million in urgent aid for the South Ossetia, to address a growing humanitarian catastrophe in this republic.
The South Ossetia will next year receive $400 million from Russia in reconstruction aid.
Population of various regions of Russia are collecting the humanitarian aid for refugees from South Ossetia. The Moscow region will send humanitarian aid of 35-40 million rubles, including food, medicines and clothes. The Stavropol and Orenburg regions will send to South Ossetia building materials and food. Kalmykia and Krasnoyarsk regions are collecting financial aid. The Krasnodar region has accepted 300 refugees from South Ossetia including 180 children. The Rostov region has given 13 buses for transfer of refugees from South Ossetia in the Rostov region.