Donbas militants take over control of 40 Ukrainian enterprises,
The self-proclaimed leader of the Moscow puppet “Donetsk People’s Republic”, Alexander Zakharchenko, has said the militants seized some 40 enterprises in the occupied territory of Donbas. Militants have announced that they would re-orient all production processes to fit Russian markets and those of the other countries. On March 1, the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” introduced the so-called external control at all Ukrainian enterprises operating in the temporarily occupied areas of Donbas as a response to the trading blockade of the militant-held territory.