
One policeman died during the assault by militants of the buildings of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Donetsk, according to the website of the department. Several people are injured, two of them are hard.
"The police led by General Konstantin Pozhidaev (head of the Internal Affairs Directorate in the Donetsk region - ed.) Burricated in the building of the Internal Affairs Directorate and keep the defense," the report said.
According to Donbass News, the assault is being conducted by law enforcement units of the Donetsk People's Republic Battalion Vostok and the Eighth Roth. Part of the building is captured, several policemen are taken hostage.
On Tuesday, in the Donetsk region, traffic on a number of bus routes was suspended in connection with the conduct of the ATO, the League reports . Transport communication is not carried out with the cities of the northern and western parts of the region.
On Tuesday , government forces began active actions to neutralize and destroy terrorist groups in the operation zone. “Aviation and artillery blows are applied everywhere at the supporting points and places of accumulation of terrorists. With the beginning of the activation of the ATO after a ten -day pause, which allowed the militants to act actually with impunity, their fighting spirit fell sharply. The activity of terrorist groups has sharply decreased,” said Dmitry Tymechuk, leader of the Information Resistance group.
On Tuesday night, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, following a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council , refused to extend the ceasefire in the eastern regions of the country. At the same time, he noted that the proposal of amnesty remains in force. "To everyone who, having taken the path of armed resistance to legal authorities, but realizing that he made a mistake and wants to correct it, I, as the President, guarantee non -criminal liability. One condition is to voluntarily lay down a weapon," Poroshenko said.
On June 20, Poroshenko announced the ceasefire for seven days. On June 27, he extended the truce for another 72 hours , until 22:00 (23:00 Moscow time) Monday. A truce lasting ten days was over a hundred times broken by militants. During this time, 27 Ukrainian military were killed.