The part of employees of the Russian customs checkpoint " Gukovo " in the night of Thursday were evacuated because of a fire on the adjacent territory, said Last news Commissioner of the South customs administration.

" The night part of the personnel MAPP " Gukovo " was evacuated because of a fire on the adjacent territory. Despite this, the remaining customs officers 8. 00 GMT Thursday began after the break, the work ", - said the interviewer. He added that now, also closed the checkpoint " Kujbyshevo ".

before because of the shootings in the square of Ukraine was closed several Russian checkpoint. So frontier Department suspended the work of checkpoints, " Donetsk", " Novoshakhtinsk", and " Gukovo ". Later the Russian side said that the MAPP " Gukovo " continues, but the document for access to individuals and passenger vehicles is carried out only on entry to the Russian Federation.


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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