The Ministry of transport DND: Kiev has restricted the entry of transport from the territory of the Republic
Kiev has restricted the entry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's Republic controlled by Ukrainian security forces, said Last news Commissioner of the Ministry of transport DND on Thursday.
yesterday the security Service of Ukraine stated that entered into force a new procedure for crossing the line of contact in Donbas. Kiev introduced the electronic issuance of permits and expanded the list of cases when you have the opportunity to refuse permission.
"Opened to traffic on Mariupol and Artemivsk directions, but only to miss the cars of those who is registered in Ukraine. Public transport don't miss, " said the head of the Department.
As reported by the Donetsk news Agency, Kiev on Thursday blocked all exits from the self-proclaimed Republic." The Ukrainian Military today blocked all exits from the DNR on Kiev-controlled territory, " the Agency reports referring to the Ministry of transport DND.
From January to the decision of the Ukrainian authorities in the Donbas entered the permit regime. To enter or to leave the self-proclaimed LNR and DND can be only by special passes. Ukrainian border guards say every day about the arrest of machines With products, household cleaning products and medicines on their way to the Donbass. The OSCE observers in their own reports noted that the transport and economic blockade leads to a humanitarian catastrophe in the area, called on Kiev to withdraw it. The lifting of the blockade is one of the mandatory items signed by the contact group on settling the situation in Donbas Complex of measures on 12 February.
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 were about 6, 5 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.