The foreign ministry has allocated €656,447 to be precise.

Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna (Eesti 200) said: "Ukrainian residents, including young children, are paying a high and painful price due to Russia's terror."

"Daily strikes, including the recent ones on the Kharkiv region, have killed civilians, destroyed buildings, and forced thousands of vulnerable people to leave their homes."

"It is our duty to support them in every possible way," the minister went on. "Through strategic partners, we can reach those who need our help the most urgently."

This year an estimated 14.6 million people in Ukraine will require humanitarian aid, the ministry says, with the most critical areas naturally being those nearest the front-line, principally in the east and southeast of the country in the Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts. Given the recent Russian strike, which achieved very little, on the northern city of Kharkiv, and the spiteful onslaught in the area around Kyiv in the early phases of the stalled invasion, aid would be required for those regions too.

The foreign ministry has principally supported Ukraine bilaterally rather than through international orgs, but the latter, including the International Committee of the Red Cross and UN humanitarian organizations, have also been vectors.

Various physical items of military, logistics, energy and medical aid have also been sent to Ukraine.

Priority areas include humanitarian de-mining, urgent assistance to cope with the destruction of civilian infrastructure and energy systems, and aid near the front-line.

Of the total €656,477, over half, €352,695, will be funneled through the Estonian Refugee Council NGO, towards multi-purpose cash assistance in Ukraine's most vulnerable areas and to improve the self-sufficiency of Ukrainians and also of Ukrainian refugees currently residing in Georgia.

The remainder, €303,752 will be used by NGO Mondo, to organize follow-up summer camps for students from Zaporizhzhia, and to provide mental health support in Ukraine.

Estonia's total humanitarian aid to Ukraine across all sectors comes to at least €26.6 million, with the public sector contributing €7.5 million of that, the foreign ministry says.

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