Night travel bans imposed in Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast after Ukrainian strikes on key routes
Passenger road transport at night has been banned in the Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast.
Source: Russian-appointed local authorities; Novaya Gazeta Europe, a Latvia-based Russian news agency
Details: Regular and irregular passenger road transport will be banned from 21:00 to 05:00 starting on 12 June, by a decision by the defence headquarters of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic. [Donetsk People's Republic or DPR is a self-proclaimed Russia-backed quasi-state formation in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast – ed.]
The departure of organised groups of children for holidays and health camps outside the territory of the DPR has also been suspended.
The decision was taken amid an increase in Ukrainian strikes on roads running through the area.
Drones attacked temporarily occupied Crimea and several Russian regions on the night of 11-12 June, causing fires at a thermal power plant and chemical facilities.
"Since May, the Ukrainian forces have been actively attacking the Novorossiya motorway, which connects Crimea and Rostov-on-Don through occupied territories, with drones," Novaya Gazeta Europe wrote.
On 21 May, Russian authorities banned lorry traffic on the route, except for the transport of several categories of especially important goods. Drivers have also been advised not to use certain sections of the road.
Background:
- Earlier, Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-appointed puppet governor of occupied Crimea, said passenger trains will enter the peninsula only during daylight hours from 10 June.
- Bus services are being scaled back in the Henichesk municipal district in the Russian-occupied part of Kherson Oblast due to a fuel shortage.
- A fuel crisis is continuing in Russian-annexed Crimea: after an incident in which 400 buses failed to operate due to fuel shortages, the occupation authorities ordered the problem to be resolved, but many services remained suspended.
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