The occupied territory
Militants fired at the repairmen who agreed to fix water supply in the Donbas. According to a preliminary agreement with the representatives of the illegal “DPR”, “Donbas Water”, a utilities company, was to start repairing near the village of Mayorske on May 21. As soon as the repairmen came to the place, militants started shelling from automatic grenade launchers, anti-aircraft missile launchers, machine guns, and small arms.
The territory under Ukrainian control
On May 21, the town of Avdiyivka (the Donetsk region) was shelled from heavy artillery. Two women who work for Avdiyivka Coke Chemistry Plant were wounded; one person perished. The information was presented by Vyacheslav Abroskyn, Chief of regional police. According to him, there were 27 direct hits on the territory of the plant and the railroad Depot. Later a dead body was found in a burnt locomotive.
According to Oleksandr Kykhtenko, Chief of Donetsk Regional Military and Civil Administration, the permit system at the demarcation line of the ATO zone is not very effective. He said, “The present system makes a lot of Donetsk citizens queue for hours. The checks take much longer time that it is fixed by law. People cannot enjoy their constitutional right to free movement; they cannot visit their family who live on the uncontrolled territory.”
According to the information presented by the Head of the Region, during the ATO, 896 km of roads were destroyed in the Donetsk region. The sum of the damage is 2.5 mln UAH. At present the state cannot allot all the money needed for complete reconstruction.
The activity of illegal armed formations has been shifted from the direction of Donetsk to the direction of Artemivsk. The information was presented by Dmytro Tymchuk, Chief of the Center of Military and Political Research.
Oleksandr Kravtsov, Deputy Chief of Donetsk Regional Military and Civil Administration, was dismissed. Oleksandr Kykhtenko, Chief of Donetsk Regional Civil and Military Administration, commented the dismissal, “We have different views on executing serious duties. Everything should be done promptly, in the way militaries do it. Aleksandr Oleksiyovych is a meticulous person, but the work should be done without delay. Today it is the requirement of our life.”
An All-Ukrainian “Vyshyvanka” Day was celebrated in the Donetsk region. People wearing Ukrainian national embroidered clothes, vyshyvankas, came to main town and city squares.
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