One of the shops of the Slavic heavy machinery plant ( " slavtjazhmash"), Slavyansk (Donetsk region) caught fire after an artillery bombardment, said Last news in the headquarters of militias.

in Slavyansk currently there are fights between controlled by the Kyiv security forces and local militias, not recognizing fresh Kyiv authorities." the company fired from the mountain Karachun, where stands the Ukrainian artillery ", said Last news authorized staff.

" Slavtjazhmash " produces coke chemical equipment for the plants of Russia and Ukraine.

During the shelling another shell hit the orphanage " Sail of hope ", the students of which were evacuated yesterday.

Just a day in the shelling damage of an organism in Slavyansk got five people in it, and among them One militiaman. The rest of the wounded were civilians.

in response to the militiamen came out with the help of mortars to eliminate howitzer in the area of the checkpoint at that plant - BAS." Calculation howitzers just threw the gun and ran away, making the answer Just two shots ", - stated the leader of the militia Slavyansk Igor Strelkov.


The crisis of political power broke out in Ukraine by the end of November 2013, when the Cabinet has announced About temporary suspension of European integration of the state. Numerous protests, called Bromidom, were held throughout Ukraine and in January resulted in clashes with police. The result of fighting in the street, during which the opposing political force many times used small arms and began dozens of casualties.
on February 22, the country suffered a violent seizure of power. The Verkhovna Rada, violating between President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leaders, changed the Constitution changed the leadership of the Parliament and the Ministry of internal Affairs and was removed from power the head of the country, which was then forced to leave Ukraine, fearing for their lives. on 27 February, the Ukrainian Parliament approved the so-called government of national trust, became Premier Arseniy Yatsenyuk.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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