Luhansk Governor threatens to close the only checkpoint in the LC

The head of the Lugansk military-civil administration Gennady Moskal threatens to close the Last checkpoint controlled by the militia of the territory because of the attacks of the Ukrainian post.

According to Moskal on your personal Internet office, on the first day of the week in the evening, the militia controlled from Mikhailovka continued attacks of extreme Ukrainian checkpoint, located in the village of Rodina. The wounded and dead there.

"Just at this point is the only checkpoint in the occupied territory. There are no strategic military targets worth shooting at, on the contrary, in both directions continuously moving walkers, cyclists, and transport of international humanitarian organizations ", - said Moskal.

"I'm warning through the media of those who stand with arms in the occupied side - if the shelling does not stop, this is the only checkpoint in the so-called LNR in the near future will be closed," said the Governor.

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, obliges the Authorities of Ukraine to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized self-proclaimed DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of conduct in local elections, entering into the Constitution of Ukraine of change, involving the decentralization of Power, as well as on the issue of legislative recognition of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ". The results of the last meeting of the contact group 6 may present turned out to form four sub-working groups on specific aspects of de-escalation of the conflict.


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