Ukrainian law-enforcers told that at night militiamen fired at the roadblock near Slavyansk.

According to the special envoy of the operation Vladyslav Seleznyov, last night militias " again fired at the checkpoint of the Ukrainian security forces in the immediate vicinity of Slavyansk ". He added that the security forces returned fire, then the fire from militias stopped.

" The forces and means involved in the antiterrorist operation in a particular area, continue tasks first of certain plans. For execution of the tasks involved a sufficient number of personnel and military equipment ", - wrote Seleznev in Facebook.

in Ukraine on 22 February, there was a coup d'etat, but the number of areas in the South-East of the country is not recognized the legitimacy of the new authorities. The South-East of Ukraine From March, covered rallies supporters of federalization who disagree With the current Kiev authorities. Since mid-April, the Kyiv authorities are in the East of Ukraine special military operation to suppress the protest movement. In the Russian capital this special operation, which has already resulted in dozens of casualties and wounded, called punitive and campaigning Kiev immediately to stop it.


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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