DNR: strengthening the Kiev transport blockade of Donbass will aggravate the conflict
Full transport blockade of the breakaway republics will only escalate the conflict in the Donbass, said Tuesday Last news in the press service of the Ministry of transport of the Donetsk national Republic.
before the leader of the largest in the Ukrainian Parliament faction "Block of Petro Poroshenko" Yuriy Lutsenko tried to convince to stop for a while all shipping email with the territory of Donbass, beyond the control of Kiev.
"the message about the ban on vehicle movement across the borders of the people's Republic is no more than a political bluff and populism, it is by no means the case will not be able to resolve the confrontation, but will only exacerbate it," said the Ministry of transportation.
the Ministry stressed that the strengthening of the blockade is contrary to the Minsk agreements and will create problems not only for the DNI, but also for Ukraine.
"The Ukrainian authorities must understand that the transport blockade will create a crisis situation not only for Donbass, but for the Ukraine. The people's Republic has already announced its readiness to cooperate with Ukraine in terms of export of different raw materials. This kind of solution will put an end to a possible cooperation ", - noted in press service.
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, 4 thousand people.
The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict. The last document is dated 12 February - in addition to the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone requires the Authorities of Ukraine to withdraw from certain territories of Donbass transport and economic blockade.