The state Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin and the head of the PACE Anne Brasseur expressed condolences in connection With death of people in the South-East of Ukraine.

"I would like to pay tribute and memory of all those killed, about 5 thousand people, to Express sympathy to all those who lost their homes, had to leave the wounded, all of them I would like to Express their sympathy," said Brasseur after the meeting of the Chairman of the division of PACE.

Naryshkin also expressed condolences." I subscribe to the words of condolences Madame Brasseur concerning the death of the thousand and thousand Citizens of Ukraine ", - said the Speaker of the state Duma.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat citizens of the region. 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 the fire in the Donbass increased. The thirteenth of January, under the Volnovaha in the Donetsk region was hit by a bus, because it has lost the lives of 13 people. The bus driver said that the fire had controlled the Kiev military North.

Military 18 January intensified shelling of Donetsk, Kiev officially acknowledged that at the airport of the city is a massive special operation. After a few days, 22 January, in Donetsk, was fired on public transport, died 8 people, 17 were injured. In the end the fighting and shelling damaged houses, communications and infrastructure.

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