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State border guard service: No cargo transported via contact line in Donbas starting 13:00

Published March 15, 2017 at 3:35 pm

A woman stands at a bus stop in Shcherbivka village where activists are blockaded trains traveling from the separatist-held territories on Feb. 14. On March 15 Ukraine has halted the movement of all goods in and out of areas seized by Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country.

Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has said that any cargo shipping through the disengagement line in Donbas, starting from 13:00 on March 15, was terminated.

“Starting from 13:00, any cargo transportation through the disengagement line is not carried out,” Oleh Slobodian, the spokesperson of the State Border Guard Service, told Interfax-Ukraine.