The strength of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic, the hope for the environment to take under the supervision of a number of settlements, said the Deputy chief of staff of the militia Eduard Bacurin.

"As was stated by the Head of the Republic, the Sands by the end of the day we shall fully observe, also, he called the outskirts of the Town", he told reporters.

Ukrainian Military 18 January intensified shelling of Donetsk, Kiev officially acknowledged that the airport city Military is conducting a massive special operation. In the end the fighting and shelling damaged houses, communications and infrastructure. As said the Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin in an interview Last news , events in Ukraine in the last days, confirm the most serious concerns about the intention of Kiev by force to resolve the situation in the Donbass.

The self-proclaimed head of the Donetsk national Republic Alexander Zakharchenko on the first day of the week has been accused Kiev of violating the truce and attack in Donetsk, he tried to convince the OSCE to make the Ukrainian Authorities to perform Minsk consensus.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the UN, the victims of the conflict were more than 4, 8 thousands of civilians. The ninth of December in the Donbass began a consistent militias and security forces through the mediation of the OSCE another truce. On January 9, the intensity of attacks in the region has increased, and among them fired residential areas of Donetsk.

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