The press service of the Ministry of transport of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's Republic said on the last working day of the week that the Ukrainian Military shelled the railway stretch Nikitovka-Maori in Gorlovka ? one of the 2 existing areas of supply of coal to power stations of Ukraine.
"Maori at the station on August 27, at 16. 00 at the end of hostilities found the destruction of the odd and even paths. The damaged rail with total length of 103 meters, 22 concrete beams, frame rails, controls and 68 concrete sleepers ", - is informed in the report of the press service of transport Ministry DND.
Due to the destruction of ways of movement on the stretch has stopped, and " there is no possibility that any transfer to the platform Ukraine ? the same coal ", reports Donetsk news Agency referring to the Ministry of transport DND." Nothing surprising. VSU love to give such surprises ", - stressed in the Ministry. According to the envoy's press service, restoration work on the tracks will begin only after the emergency Workers examine the site of the shelling. Remember, on the last working day of the week DND and LNR told about the contraction of Ukrainian military equipment to the frontline. In the last days in the Donbas, the situation deteriorated badly. Despite the cease-fire, which turned out to come to a common opinion in February this year, the attacks between the forces of the Ukrainian army on one side and the LPR and the DPR and return continue. In DND stated that the slightest provocation on the amount of equipment and forces, which Kiev pulled up to the line of contact in Donbas, increases the likelihood of a reduction to full-scale hostilities. The trilateral contact group on Ukraine agreed on Wednesday to try to broker a ceasefire in the Donbass by September 1.

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