Main news of Donbas: More than 400 thousand internally displaced persons need accommodation in the Donbas

According to Andriy Lysenko, ATO representative of the Presidential Administration, no militaries perished, 21 were wounded during the three days of the weekend.

The settlement of Stanytsya Luhanska was shelled from mortars. A woman perished, houses were destroyed. The settlement is without electricity, running water, and connection. The information was given by the press service of Henadiy Moskal, Chairman of Luhansk regional military and civil administration. “Starting from Friday evening (26.06) till Saturday morning, militants were shelling Stanytsya Luhanska non-stop from mortars, small arms, and anti-tank guided missiles… One of the anti-tank missiles stuck into the ground in front of the district administration building, but did not explode. A part of a mortar (the tail of it) broke a window and got into one of the offices. In May 1 and Barbashova streets, two private houses burnt down as a result of direct hits. Unfortunately, there were victims. During the night shelling in Donetska Street, a woman perished”.

In the settlement of Spartak, which is near occupied Donetsk (the Donetsk region), members of illegal armed groupings cut cables, rails, and other metal constructions into scrap metal. It was informed by the public movement “Oborona Mariupolya” (“Mariupol Defense”) which got the information from locals. Activists say that militants offer locals to participate in cutting the canning factory into scrap metal. The payment will depend on the amount of metal scrap.

Police and military commandant's office representatives came several times – they were called by locals, but the militants did not stop. They explained that cutting into metal scrap was sanctioned by Oleksandr Zakharchenko, head of illegal “DPR” organization.

One civilian perished during the night shelling of Horlivka (June 27-28).

On June 27, occupied Donetsk celebrated Day of Youth. Everywhere where there were masses of people, in parks, in particular, where concerts and contests for children and youth were held, there were illegal “DPR” organization symbols.

On June 29, in occupied Donetsk, a truck “Yural” with illegal “DPR” grouping militants rammed a car. It happened at the intersection of Panfilova and Universytetska streets. Witnesses say it was a head-on collision. The passenger perished. The left side of the car was crashed. Another witness says that doctors tried to save the passenger and the driver.

In case of economic blockade of the Donbas, the phenol plant which has not reregistered on the territory controlled by, Ukraine will stop working. “We should not  allow the plant to stop working”, said Pavlo Zhebrivsky, Chairman of Donetsk regional military and civil administration (DRMCA) during his visit to Dzerzhinsk, according to the press service of DRMCA. During hostilities, the plant has been shelled several times.

Pavlo Zhebrivsky, Head of Donetsk Regional State Administration promised during his working trip a money reward to the winner of the contest for the best renaming of the town of Dzerzhynsk. Press Service of Donetsk Regional State Administration says that the step is going to be taken in accordance with the law about decommunisation of Ukraine. 

More than 400 thousand internally displaced persons need accommodation on the territory of Ukraine which is controlled by the Ukrainian authorities, as the Governor claimed in his interview to Channel 5 on June 28. 

“Besides that, more than 25 thousand people are looking for a job today”, added he. As the Governor thinks, people must be given an opportunity to fulfill themselves so that they could have something to live on when they come back home.

Zhebrivsky also thinks that if the border between Ukraine and Russian is closed, the Ukrainian constitutional order will soon be re-established on the occupied part of the Donbas. 

“If the help of our international partners can help us stop the aggression, if the state border is blocked, by peacekeepers as well, the constitutional order will spread around the occupied territory very quickly, in  about a fortnight”, said the Governor.

In his opinion, separatists on the occupied territory are supported by the minority.

“The ones who claim that some nonreversible processes have taken place there are wrong. Yes, there are 5-10% of people on the occupied territories who cannot tolerate Ukraine, but the rest 85-90% in three months will think that what happened to them was just a nightmare”, thinks Zhebrivsky.

June 28 is the Day of Ukrainian Constitution.

In Slovyansk, the time of the beginning of the concert devoted to Day of Youth, which was organized and paid for by the public organization “Public Union “Programme of Promoting Renaissance and Integration of Ukrainian East “Donbas”, coincided with the Sunday Viche (meeting) of local pro-Ukrainian activists. The “News of Donbas” correspondent says that the situation resulted in a conflict.  The moderator, whose service was paid for by the concert organizers, was rude and refused to give the floor to activists and representatives of the territorial community of Slovyansk. The public organization “Public Union “Program of Promoting Renaissance and Integration of Ukrainian East “Donbas” is supported by “The Block of Petro Poroshenko”.

Kramatorsk activists proved in court that public transport fares were illegal. The tariffs were fixed during the “DPR” occupation on May 7, 2014. It was the appellate court that cancelled the tariffs on June 23, 2015.

“On May 7, when the town was occupied, the decision to raise fares to 4 hryvnyas was against the current law of Ukraine. This decision was cancelled neither after the liberation of the town, nor after the activists addressed the authorities. We brought the case to court, which took nearly nine months. Finally, on June 23 the verdict of the Court of Appeal cancelled both the decision about raising the fares and the decision of the court of the first instance, which denied my claim”, said Serhiy Kyrychenko, a Kramatorsk activist. However, according to his words, the carriers are not in a hurry to fulfill the court decision

 “Starting with June 23, the day when the court verdict was announced, the fares must be 2.75 hryvnyas for fixed-route taxis and 2 hryvnyas for other kinds of public transport. The carriers did not appear in court and now they claim that they still have not been informed about the decision”, added Kyrychenko.