The work of the railway junction of debaltseve will help stabilize the economies of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk national republics, said the Minister of transport DND semen Kuzmenko on the last working day of the week.
Debaltseve is a city of regional significance in the Donetsk region and one of the largest railway junctions of Ukraine, where the railway track from Kharkov, Mariupol, Rostov-on-don, Taganrog and the capital of Russia.
in the area of Debaltsevo in February there were clashes between security forces and militias. Militias on February 19 told that the operation in Debaltsevo in practice ended, the city in General came under their supervision. Visited debaltseve Workers OSCE recorded numerous destruction.
"Restoring currently Debaltseve railway hub is in the truest sense of the value of the" road of life " for the economy of Donetsk and Lugansk national republics, taking a significant part of the voltage in transport logistics ", - quotes Kuzmenko Donetsk news Agency. According to his statement, from the stable operation of the node depends on the recovery and launch of the Alchevsk steel mill, the revival of the mines in different parts of the DPR and LPR.
The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE.
The next meeting of the contact group on February 12 ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone. Soon after informing truce in the Donbass resumed shooting, the parties blame each other in violation of the "silence" and report that conduct only return fire. Kiev is considering an appeal to the UN and the EU on the introduction of peacekeepers in Donbass.
dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February came amid a sharp escalation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, which increased the forces began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.
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