Ammunition detonated due to forest fires at Stanitsa Luganskaya checkpoint – humanitarian mission



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Due to the fire and the periodic explosions of ammunition, the Proliska humanitarian mission announced the suspension of the operation of the electric cars that transport citizens free of charge in the withdrawal zone through the Stanitsa Luganskaya checkpoint.

On 1 October, the electric cars of the humanitarian mission Proliska, which circulate daily from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and transport citizens of Ukraine through the untying zone for free, suspended their work at the Stanitsa Luganskaya checkpoint. due to forest fires. The mission reported this on Facebook.

“The fire has crept up to the Stanitsa Luganskaya checkpoint and ammunition detonations periodically occur, so I made the decision to temporarily suspend the operation of the electric cars until the fire is extinguished and the situation stabilizes”, said the head of the humanitarian mission Yevgeny Kaplin.



The humanitarian mission, with financial support from the UN Refugee Agency, has been transporting citizens from among the vulnerable categories in electric cars through the Stanytsia Luhanska checkpoint since August 2019.

In September, several forest fires broke out in the Lugansk region; Sergeant Major Artem Bondarenko died while extinguishing the fire. The JFO headquarters assumed that the fires could be set, organized by the militants.

On September 30, massive fires in the region resumed. Fires were recorded in Starobelskiy, Stanichno-Luganskiy and Novoaydarskiy districts and in the Severodonetsk region, due to fires in the city’s schools, classes were canceled. The fires registered on the night of September 30 in the region covered more than 9.3 thousand hectares. Fire extinguishing is complicated by wind gusts of up to 20 m / s.

On the facts of the fires in the Lugansk region, the police opened seven criminal proceedings. The Ukrainian Interior Ministry reported five deaths as a result of fires, 120 people were evacuated.



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