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The dozens of Russian trucks that are supposedly carrying humanitarian supplies to eastern Ukraine are now being accompanied by helicopters and military vehicles, according to pictures taken by journalists currently reporting from the region.

So two of these babies just pulled up behind the convoy line pic.twitter.com/EVyACn40HQ — Courtney Weaver (@courtneymoscow) August 14, 2014

It's not just white aid lorries that are heading down the highway towards Rostov: military vehicles, too. pic.twitter.com/Z12t8cbx0n — Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) August 14, 2014

Two helicopters accompanying the convoy, flying extremely low. Now sat in the fields alongside pic.twitter.com/yYTr7Vhp8C — Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) August 14, 2014

The 262-vehicle fleet that the Russian government says is carrying humanitarian supplies left Moscow on Tuesday for the war-torn areas of eastern Ukraine.

According to The Associated Press, the trucks, which had been parked outside the Russian city of Voronezh since late Tuesday started moving again on Thursday, pivoting west towards Izvaryne, a border crossing controlled by the separatists.

Should the Russians use the Izvaryne crossing they would bypass a checkpoint controlled by the Ukrainian government where the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) examines all of the shipments going in and out of the country.