Ukraine: state of high alert across the country – Gazeta.pl

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– The government has decided to set up a regional coordination centers for the state of emergency. These are regional committees. State of emergency – declared Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. According to ITAR-TASS news agency, the introduction of a state of emergency in order to coordinate the activities of services in the region. At the head of the special committee is to meet the Prime Minister.

Deputy Director of the Centre for Eastern Studies, Adam Eberhardt said that does not mean limiting civil rights, but allows state authorities coordinate local activities.

Reaction Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the authorities in Kiev refuse commitment to a political solution on the eastern Ukraine, where in recent days there has been a serious escalation of the situation.

– Unfortunately, the Ukrainian authorities reject a peaceful solution, do not want political efforts – Putin said at a meeting with students in St. Petersburg. He added that the authorities in Kiev advantage of a break in the fighting to regroup his forces.

Firing Mariupol

Last weekend shelling conducted by separatists in the south-east of Mariupol Ukraine killed at least 27 people, including two children, and 97 wounded. Mariupol is a strategic port, lying on the only road between Russia and the land it occupied the Crimea, approx. 60 km west of the Russian border and approx. 40 km Novoazovsk occupied by separatists. Ukrainians fear that if Russia openly attacked their country, it is a major launches an offensive in the region.

The head of the self-proclaimed Republic of China Donetsk Oleksandr Zacharczenko announced that offensive began on Mariupol.

Ukrainian Army stated that the shelling of rebels led Grad missile system that were destroyed in the attack residential buildings.

A few days ago a spokesman for the National Security Council and Defense of Ukraine Andriy Lysenko said that the separatists’ greatly revived the “shelling Mariupol region.

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Ukraine: state of high alert across the country – Gazeta.pl