Full relaunch of Schastye power plant needed to resume key industrial enterprises

The Schastye power plant should be relaunched for the Alchevsk Steelworks and Stakhanov Ferroalloy Plant to resume operation, the LPR Head Leonid Pasechnik said.

Currently, the LPR needs to demine the territory of the Schastye power plant and to complete mine clearance operations along the power lines destroyed in 2017. 

"The scheduled operations will allow us to restore economic networks, destroyed closed-loop production processes, to resume the operation of the Alchevsk Steelworks and Stakhanov Ferroalloy Plant," Pasechnik said.

"This closed-loop production cycle is the basis of the Republic's economy, the heart of its economy."

"This will enable us to create 15,000 work places," he added.

The Ministry of Emergencies has already explored 80 pc of the power plant premises, and partially demined it.

Aidar, a Ukrainian nationalistic battalion, used the Schastye power plant as its stronghold, and turned its territory into a warren of fire positions and bunkers, some of them hiding Javelin anti-tank systems.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Donbass to protect residents of the region from Ukrainian aggression and called on Ukrainian troops to leave the combat zone. Earlier, the Heads of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin, requested Russian President Vladimir Putin to provide military assistance.

The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014.  The members of the Contact Group have announced ceasefire more than 20 times since the autumn of 2014. Kiev forces regularly violated the truce opening fire with large caliber artillery, mortars and tank guns which were to have been withdrawn from the contact line under the accords. *t