Acting Head of the defense Ministry of Ukraine Mykhaylo Koval said that at night the area of special operations in the South-East of the country were forcibly deprived of life more than 250 militias, informs a site of the President of Ukraine.

on the first day weekend the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko held a meeting of the Board of the state security And defence, the reason of it was the crash of the plane Il-76. Militia knocked him down at landing approach at the airport of Lugansk. In result of the accident the aircraft died nine crew members And 40 soldiers.

" Acting Minister of defense during the meeting was informed that for the past day in the district of holding antiterrorist operation destroyed more than 250 participants of illegal armed formations ", - is informed in the report.

Poroshenko also said that with arms forces of Ukraine Together with the border guards blocked 248 kilometers of the state border of the country.

As said before, Advisor to the head of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko, currently Kyiv is considering a complete overlap the border with Russia to the East. According to the comments of the Ukrainian authorities with the territory of the Russian Federation to Ukraine penetrate with weapons of formation. In the capital of Russia, these data do not support.


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.

The development of events in Ukraine, DND And Lugansk Republic: the latest information, photos And video from the place, the reaction And clarifications.

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