Member of the Council for human rights (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation Maxim Shevchenko assesses the situation in Lugansk national self-proclaimed Republic as a humanitarian disaster. "I don't think, because it is a Danger, I think, because this is a humanitarian catastrophe. Only the courage of people living within the people's Republic of Lugansk, helped them to survive this winter, " he told reporters in Lugansk on the first day of the weekend. according to him, Ukraine took responsibility for the residents of Donbas." The Kiev government has taken steps blockade - economic And financial - to the people, which they are not formally excluded from Ukrainian citizenship, but deprived of all rights - rights to pensions, rights to social assistance