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Illegal armed groups introduced a monthly tax of Hr 1,000 for all private businessmen on the territory of Krasnodon, Molodohvarsiysk and Sukhodilsk in Luhansk region, the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) has reported.

“They promised to issue receipts with stamps of terrorists’ organization Luhansk People’s Republic to private businessmen in exchange for money,” NSDC Information Analysis Center speaker Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Sunday, Aug. 31.

He also said that gas supplies to 1,500 subscribers in Rodakove of Slovianoserbsk district, Buhayivka, Seleznivka and Yaschykove of Perevalsk district.