The authorities of the East-Ukrainian Donetsk expect to recover the Holy Iveron monastery, which was destroyed in the process of fighting, said Thursday Last news in the administration of the Kuibyshev district of the city.

The Svyato-Iversky women's monastery is located in five hundred metres to the West of the Donetsk airport. In the end a fierce battle, it was destroyed.

"Let's try to restore the monastery. Currently the territory is being examined by the bomb squad, the monks keep the rubble. Estimates of damage so far not, after analysis of blockages will all calculate ", - said the representative of the regional administration.

The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbas region is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which since September of last year had already taken 3 of the document, regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

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