The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed decrees on awarding military - participants of military operations in the East, and among them those who participated in the battles with the militia near the town of Debaltsevo, notified on the Internet office of the head of the country.
"for personal courage and heroism in the defense of state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, professionalism, loyalty to the oath awarded 340 soldiers," said the report.
A separate decree for extraordinary courage and heroism in battle " close to Debaltsevo awarded 74 soldiers, of whom 17 - posthumously.
in the area of Debaltsevo, one of the largest transport hubs in the Ukraine, there were clashes security forces and militia. Before the Militia declared surrounded by security forces, according to them, the Ukrainian law enforcers mass surrender. Militia on February 19, told that the fighting in Debaltsevo in practice ended, the city in General came under their supervision. Kiev said that Military planning retreated from Debaltsevo and resettles, Artemovsk.
The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict began almost 5, 7 thousands of civilians.
The resolution of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, during meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of the Russian Federation and the OSCE. The next meeting of the contact group on 12 February ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, a cease-fire in the Donbass with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of a security zone.
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