More than a hundred settlements in the Donetsk region was left without electricity due to renewed attacks, said on the first day of the week the energy company DTEK.

Kiev on Sunday intensified shelling of Donetsk and legally admitted that at the airport of the city Military is conducting a massive special operation. In the end the fighting and shelling damaged houses, communications and infrastructure. Similarly on Sunday, the fire was subjected to Gorlovka. In Kiev told that the special operation in Donetsk airport is not infractions of the Minsk agreement on resolving the situation in the South-East of Ukraine.

" The renewed fighting in the morning on January 19 in Donetsk region 112 is de-energized settlements. Particularly damaged yasinovatskiy, Novoazovsk, Telmanovo areas, Donetsk, Gorlovka, Avdeevka. To enhance fire 15-16 January deenergized were only 30 settlements, according to the report DTEK.

according to the company, January 18, due to the shelling was dead Horlivka filtration plant, pump station, 1st ascent of Gorlovka Vodokanal and the City's Central and Skoye areas Gorlovka. On the same day the supply of these objects has been restored from a backup scheme. Because of the bombardment of the territory of the plant "Tochmash" in Donetsk on January 17, corrupted by two substations 110 kV high-voltage line 110 kV, was de-energized "Tochmash" and the adjacent residential areas of the Kiev region. Because of the falling fragments of shells at substations withdrawn from the system power transformers. Power engineers managed to restore the line 110 kV, the input voltage at the Donetsk filter station, but the station itself remains de-energized due to severe damage.

"Despite the fighting energy DTEK opportunities are rebuilding," said the report. So, I was able to run the substation Line, supplying power to the Central part of Donetsk, and to restore electricity at fifteen boiler. Along With this, due to constant bombardment energy DTEK high-Voltage networks, DTEK Donetskoblenergo and PES-Energougol until not have the opportunity to get closer to the damaged power facilities in Gorlovka, Donetsk, Yasinovataya and to assess the extent of the damage.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April 2014 in the Donbass force special operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the UN, the victims of the conflict were More than 4, 8 thousands of civilians. The ninth of December in the Donbass began a consistent militias and security forces through the mediation of the OSCE another truce. On January 9, the intensity of attacks in the region has increased.

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