Lavrov: the Economic blockade of Donetsk and Lugansk is not conducive to lowering tensions
Russia supports the establishment of stable contacts of Kiev from Donetsk and Luhansk, economic blockade areas not conducive to de-escalate the situation, said the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov.. " Russia stands for building sustainable contacts of Kiev from Donetsk and Lugansk taking into account the outcome of the elections. The decree of the President Poroshenko, which in fact provides an economic blockade of these areas is not conducive to lowering tensions, " said the Russian Minister at a press conference on the results of negotiations with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbj?rn Jagland, RIA " Novosti ". At the end of the second decade of November, Kiev officially took responsibility for civilians trapped in the area ATO ": presidential decrees ordered to evacuate all state institutions and to stop the maintenance of Bank accounts. Such events demonstrate about the start of a new phase of the war, which in Kyiv in fact regarded as a war in a foreign land. 12 November, the authorities of the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk national republics published an appeal to the Ukrainian authorities with a request not to stop welfare payments to citizens who are controlled militia territories. However, the Kyiv authorities refused to consider the appeal of Donbass on payment of pensions. on 5 November the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said about the stop payment shipoopi part of the residents of Donbas Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which are controlled by militias.