It was a failure to connect gas and power to Triokhizbenka in Novoaidar district on Sunday, Nov. 23 due to shelling by rebels, Head of Luhansk Regional Administration Hennadiy Moskal has said.
Triokhizbenka has no gas for three weeks and no power for over one month.
“Rebels of the Cossack troops headed Ataman Kozitsyn did not allow restoring gas and power supply lines destroyed. We tried to attract OSCE as intermediaries. On Friday, during a meeting with the chairman of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMMU) Ertugrul Apakan I again in a bristly form asked the mission to do at least one concrete deed – to help saving Triokhizbenka, agree on ceasefire with Kozitsyn and allow repairmen to get to the site. Representatives met Kozitsyn several times and on Saturday evening he guaranteed ceasefire,” the press service of Moskal reported on Monday, Nov. 24.
He said that repairmen worked in two directions. Our gas workers and workers from Alchevsk were to meet near Krymske and jointly restore the destroyed gas pipeline. Electricians started restoring power lines on the rebel-control territory.
“Unfortunately, I have to state that the agreements were broken by terrorists. A group of gas workers from Alchevsk and OSCE representatives from Luhansk were not allowed to reach Krymske and our team which reached the neutral territory in working clothes and with a white flag was shelled. Fortunately, no one was wounded and military men evacuated people who have not started repairing the lines,” Moskal said.
Repairmen from Slovianoserbsk managed to repair 80 percent of destroyed lines on the territory which is under control of Kozitsyn. In the afternoon rebels opened fire and they have to leave the site.
