There is no control over what is sent from Ukraine to the occupied part of Donbas and what is brought from there – Yehor Sobolev

There is no control over what is sent from Ukraine to the occupied part of Donbas and what is brought from there – Yehor Sobolev

Yehor Sobolev together with Semen Semenchenko, Taras Pastukh and Volodymyr Parasyuk studied the passage of cargo starting from the front line, then kilometers through the gray zone, then again for kilometers to the border guards, and again for kilometers to the fiscal authorities.

As a result they came to the conclusion that in reality there is no control over what is sent from Ukraine to the occupied part of Donbas and what is brought from there. This was written by Yehor Sobolev on his Facebook page.

“In reality, at any moment we can be shipped entire echelons of the enemy’s fighting force, armored vehicles and fuel stocks, ammunition and food.”

For example, on the railroad blocked on Thursday by veterans of the War for Independence, connecting occupied Horlivka and free Bakhmut, our border guards first see a freight train several tens of kilometers after it crosses the front line and passes at least two railway stations and dozens of roads on our side. Six border guards climb onto a small bridge and simply inspect the tops of the railcars,” wrote the member of parliament.

Yehor Sobolev explained that coal is the most common commodity and on the occupied territory is purchased at a price 500-600 hryvnias per ton, while we pay for its burning in Rinat Akhmetov’s power plants at a price from 1800 hryvnias.

What is being transported from the occupied part of Donbas besides coal or under coal – again, no one is checking. Fierce fighting in Avdiivka, which is very close, new shelling of Mariupol—none of this interferes with this blood trade, the deputy said, adding that on the blocked Horlivka–Bakhmut branch, loaded wagons were transported the day before, not counting the empty ones, totaling 305.