The Ukrainian government has tightened the blockade of the Donbas republics, entering fresh limits on the import of medicines, food, alcohol, tobacco products, petroleum products and some other items.
"Now to put these products in the Donetsk and Lugansk Republic will be possible only in the form of humanitarian aid after the approval of the Ministry of social policy of Ukraine ", - informs journal " Apostrophe ".
According to the order of the first Deputy of the head of the antiterrorist center at the security Service of Ukraine to import or export any other goods from the territories of the DPR and LPR, the owner of the goods must apply to the Directorate of inter-regional management of operational zone of the ATO of the State fiscal service. During the five days of the date of the registration statement, the GFS bodies after checking cargo documents are required to send representation to the coordinating center at the headquarters of the ATO on the inclusion of goods in the relevant list. The movement of goods may only be after all taxes and fees in the budget of Ukraine, and also in the presence of all necessary documents that demonstrate transparency of payments. Before the new head of the civil-military administration of the Donetsk region Pavel Zhebrivsky said that the conclusion on the introduction of the economic blockade of Donbass is under an obligation to be comprehensive. Previously the head of the faction " Block Petro Poroshenko in the Verkhovna Rada Yuriy Lutsenko said that Ukraine needs to build a grocery blockade of Donbass, and the extra fractional people's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Yuriy Levchenko June 12, introduced to Parliament a bill to ban trade with on the occupied territories of Ukraine - the Crimea and Donbass. In addition, on may 12, the head of Lugansk regional civil-military administration Gennady Moskal was forbidden to pass the population proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk people's republics (LPR and DPR) controlled by Ukrainian security forces territory and back. In a statement released on 13 may, the report of the OSCE reported that the interim order surveillance of the movement of peaceful inhabitants, introduced by Kiev in Donbass, has greatly restricted the rights of the population of the region.

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