All roads linking the self-proclaimed DND AND LNR with Kiev-controlled territory, closed, said Thursday at a press conference the Minister of transport DND semen Kuzmenko.

"the situation in the morning All the roads are closed. And this applies not only to the DNR, but LPR. The movement is closed completely, " he said.

Thus Kuzmenko said that during the work of the Ministry of transport of the Republic appeared more than 80 routes linking the DNR with Russia." during the existence of the Ministry of transport DND appeared 83 new route linking Russia And the DPR. We connect not only big cities but city And regional scale, " said he.

at rallies in early April of this past year the residents of Donetsk And Lugansk regions of Ukraine, do not recognise the legitimacy of the February coup, announced the development of " people's republics ". After held in may referendum of the Republic declared its sovereignty And later put together their own authorities. The second of November in DND AND LNR elections of heads of republics And deputies of the parliaments.

in Kiev DND AND LNR not realized, And from mid-April 2014 in the field of power began a special operation. 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.

The last document, dated 12 February, except for a ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons And creating a security zone, obliges the authorities of Ukraine to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized 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 ".

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