11,000 civilians of the DPR live close to the frontline

11,000 residents of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) living on the disengagement line between militiamen and Ukrainian troops daily risk their lives due to massive shelling by the Ukrainian army, the head of the administration of the Petrovsky District of the city of Donetsk, Maxim Zhukovsky said on Monday.

“On the average, 11,500 people reside on the disengagement line,” the Donetsk News Agency quoted Zhukovsky as saying. “Over the past three days, 60 people wishing to resettle from shelled districts to a safer place have turned to us,” the official said.
The head of the Kuibyshevskiy district administration of Donetsk, Ivan Prikhodko, said the district authorities are preparing to resettle about 2000 people due to incessant shelling on the part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (VSU).

Massive shelling of residential neighborhoods, including with the use of aviation, has killed thousands and led to a humanitarian disaster in Donbass since Kiev in April 2014 announced the start of an “antiterrorism operation” there, which involved the Armed Forces, the Interior Ministry’s National Guard and volunteer battalions made up of Euromaidan activists, many of whom hold far-right and neo-Nazi views.