Transport blockade of Donbass is fraught with serious consequences for the Minsk agreements. As transfers RIA Novosti, on Thursday, March 16, said the acting officials of the US state Department mark Toner
He, in particular, noted that “the current situation potentially has serious consequences,” and stressed that Washington is interested in peaceful settlement of the situation. “We are constantly monitoring the situation with the blockade in the East of Ukraine. I want to emphasize the importance of resolving this issue in the spirit of peace and respect for the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders”, — quotes the diplomat of the Agency.
On 15 March the Council of national security and defense of Ukraine on the initiative of the President of Petro Poroshenko has established a complete cessation of freight traffic with uncontrolled Kiev territories of Donbass until then, until you cease fire and given heavy weapons, as well as to “return of the seized enterprises.”
The Russian foreign Ministry stressed that this decision shows the desire of Kiev “to once again shift responsibility from a sick head on healthy”.
According to estimates of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, the transport blockade of Donbas may cost the country 1.3 percent of GDP.
March 1, the self-proclaimed authorities of Donetsk and Lugansk national republics entered external management at the Ukrainian enterprises located on their territory. A day earlier, the leaders of the DND and LNR Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Carpenter made a demand to stop the trade blockade of the region, which began in late January, the Ukrainian nationalists.