The Commissioner raised concerns about the humanitarian situation in the Donbass
European Commissioner for European neighbourhood policy and the negotiations on the extension Johannes Hahn raised concerns about the humanitarian situation in the Donbass, He tried to persuade Kiev to take steps on how to fix it.
" I wished to Express concern the humanitarian situation, the most concerning people who live in the Donbass, and those people who had to leave the region, " said Khan at a press conference on the last working day of the week.
He said that nourishes the hope of realizing the Ukrainian authorities steps, " which will help all partners to properly conduct humanitarian projects ".
Kyiv authorities began in April in the East of Ukraine military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict were 4, 3 thousands of civilians, almost 10 thousand were injured, hundreds of thousands of residents had to leave the region.
last week the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko ordered to evacuate from the area of special operations in the Donbass all state agencies and courts, to take prisoners and to stop the maintenance of Bank accounts, the implementation of welfare benefits. Russia's envoy to the UN Vitaly Churkin said that the Ukrainian authorities had declared a blockade of civilians in the Donbas region faces a humanitarian catastrophe.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local residents to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language.