In Bakhmut, supporters of the blockade installed redoubt directly in the center on the railway, now there are several tents and two dozen people are on duty, reports TSN..

Despite the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to stop cargo transportation through the contact line in the ATU zone, activists plan to continue blocking, but call it a blockade, and control over the implementation of the NSDC decision. Activists do not rule out that they will block not only the railway communication, but also the roads.

"We will control. We will watch how it will be performed. Discover new redoubts and control. Everything, absolute, that is, a dead blockade, "activists say.. The number of redoubts that plan to establish, the blockade do not specify. Where exactly will they also say - they say they will equip where they need to.

After lunch, several cars with activists left in the direction of Toretskoe.

They say that they are going to rebuild the redoubt, which on Monday the security forces dispersed, while the "blockade men" were detained for some time.

At an emergency meeting of the National Security and Defense Council on March 15, it was decided to suspend the movement of goods across the line of collision in Donbass. The ban will be in effect until the return of Ukrainian enterprises captured by militants.

NSDC Secretary Alexander Turchinov said that all road and rail routes leading to the line of demarcation in the Donbass will be closed to 13. 00.