Almost fifty percent of the harvest of early grain crops, to ensure the self-proclaimed Luhansk people's Republic have already been collected, said on the last working day of the week at hardware meeting of the Council of Ministers, acting Minister of agriculture and food Ruslan Sorocabana.

before Sorocabana stated that the need LC to grain is about 65 thousand tons. Harvesting of early grain began on 9 July. Just harvesting campaign involved about 400 pieces of various mechanisms, half are harvesters.

"Already processed 12, 8 thousand hectares, collected 31 thousand tons of early grain crops. There is a small problem with vehicles in areas where it was damaged during the attacks of territories ", - said the Acting Minister.

at rallies in early April of this past year the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine, do not recognise the legitimacy of the February coup, announced the development of " people's republics ". After held in may referendum of the Republic declared its sovereignty and later formed the Union of " new Russia ", put together their own authorities. The second of November in DND and LNR elections of heads of republics and deputies of the parliaments. The self-proclaimed Republic of Donbass Kiev does not recognize.

Against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region the Ukrainian authorities began in April last year a military operation. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 5 thousand people.

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