In Donetsk, rioters seized customs and tax office to prevent the export of weapons
Donetsk, April 30 (Navigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – In Donetsk, DPR supporters took control of the buildings of the State Tax Service of Ukraine in the Donetsk region and Eastern Customs.
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According to the militia, the customs office will continue to operate as usual, and their goal was to prevent the movement of weapons that were stored there, Lifenews TV channel reports.
“We wrote a letter to the tax police and the administration with a request to prevent the illegal movement of weapons from the weapons room at customs,” said the representative of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” Alexander Dyakov. – We accepted the weapons according to acts of acceptance and transfer signed by the chairman of the government and members of the commission. The weapons will be guarded here.”
In addition, the militias occupied the department of the Ministry of Revenue and Taxes in the Donetsk region, but did not find any weapons: they had previously been taken to Kyiv.
As previously reported, the regional state administration in Donetsk remains seized, and protesters have erected barricades around the building. There are armed people in camouflage clothing in the Donetsk City Executive Committee. In addition, the city executive committees of Kramatorsk, Gorlovka, Enakievo, Konstantinovka, Khartsyzsk, Mariupol and Makeevka also operate under the control of DPR supporters.
In Donetsk, rebels seized customs and tax offices to prevent weapons from being exported.