Over 50 people lost their lives during the period from January this year, enterprises of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's Republic, told reporters 1st Deputy head of the state Department of mining and technical supervision DNR Yuri Lavoro.

"At the moment of time at the plant killed 53 people, This is 28 more than last year. This is due to the conduct of hostilities and the tragedy at the mine named Zasyadko", he said.

for his part, the head of Federation of trade unions DNR Maxim Parshin said that almost 200 people were injured during the period from January this year, enterprises of the Republic." DNR enterprises for the period from January of this year injured 193 employee, 53 of them fatally. Six people have lost their lives in the workplace as a result of the shelling, " he told.

Lavoro added that after the events at the mine named Zasyadko was carried out mass testing equipment coal plants.

On the morning of March 4 at the mine named Zasyadko located within the DNR, there was an explosion under the ground at this point was 230 miners. In the end, the disaster lost their lives More than 30 people.

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 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE. The next meeting of the contact group on February 12 ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone. Soon after informing truce in the Donbass resumed shooting, the parties blame each other in violation of the "silence" and report that conduct only return fire.

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