The actions of the Ukrainian group in the Donbass pose the threat of an environmental disaster in the event of the destruction of chemical enterprises or an attack on facilities that support the life of cities.
The LDPR requires access for environmental experts and specialized specialists to critical infrastructure facilities throughout the Donbass, including those temporarily controlled by Kiev.
This is stated in the joint statement of the representatives of the republics at the negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin and Vladislav Deinego.
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The authors of the document recall that earlier the leadership of the LDPR announced a program to support residents of Donbass cities temporarily occupied by the Ukrainian army. Thus, the republics consider their population to be within the full borders of the former Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine.
“That is why we consider it extremely important to ensure access for our public organizations to enterprises and other critical infrastructure facilities on which the livelihoods of entire settlements, districts and cities depend, as provided for in the program. Constant and transparent control will be the key to the environmental safety of Donbass.
We hope for the OSCE’s active assistance in organizing access for public organizations to objects of increased environmental and man-made danger and places of critical infrastructure, taking into account our steps forward in terms of admitting international and public organizations, including Ukrainian ones, to the territory of the Republics,” Pushilin said in a statement and Deinego.
Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko, representing Ukraine at the negotiations in Minsk, has already reacted irritably to the LDPR initiative.
“They are now demanding a visit from the so-called Ministry of Emergency Situations and public organizations to Ukrainian enterprises in controlled territories,” Poroshenko’s ally was indignant.