The self-proclaimed head of the Donetsk national Republic Alexander Zakharchenko said on Thursday that living in DNR beneficiaries will be issued by 3 tons of coal for heating homes.

"35 thousand inhabitants DNR preferential categories will receive free coal for heating homes. Each of them will receive 3 tons of coal, " he said.

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 area began a military operation. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6, 8 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.

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