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17 of March, 11:30

The Ministry of transport DNR: 40 bridges damaged or destroyed in the Republic due to the fighting
Within DND due to the fighting, damaged and destroyed about 40 bridges, said to reporters, the Minister of transport of the Republic of semen Kuzmenko.

"now about 40 bridges destroyed in the process of fighting in the country ", - he said.

The Ukrainian authorities have taken in April of last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup of the region's residents. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. Was also destroyed a large part of the transport infrastructure, as well as among them train. First Kuzmenko said that only recently was renovated only railway station, connecting the DNR and the territory of Ukraine.

Plenipotentiary representative of the Verkhovna Rada on the negotiations on the settlement of the situation in Ukraine Denis Putilin said that Kyiv has announced the Donbass economic, energy, transport blockade, which led to acute food crisis.


dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February, came amid a sharp aggravation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, who, having increased strength, began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany have taken a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbass from February fifteen, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.

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