More than twenty people, and among them two children, lost their lives during the day, in the East of Ukraine, where there are fights between the Ukrainian military and the militia, said the Ombudsman under the RF President on the rights of the child Pavel Astakhov.


the head of Ukraine Piotr Poroshenko in the middle of June announced stop fire in the East of the country. The truce was accepted by the local militia and operated until June 30. First of July Poroshenko announced the end of the truce. Immediately afterwards, the security forces have fired from artillery strikes on centres of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, fired on the territory of the village Semenovka and Nikolaevka village, Yampil town Krasnolimanskaya district.

" during the day, More than twenty of the dead, among them two children, " wrote Astakhov on his page on the social service instagram, not explaining the source of these data.


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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