President Petro Poroshenko signed the decree, which defines temporarily occupied populated areas of Donbass regions. The document also demarcates the territory of the occupied Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
The presidential decree published on the President’s Administration website states that the temporarily occupied cities (along with the affiliated settlements in their suburban areas) in Donetsk region are Donetsk, Horlivka, Debaltsevo, Dokuchaevsk, Yenakiyeve, Zhdanivka, Makiyivka, Snizhne, Khartsyzk, Krestovka, Chistyakov, Shakhtersk, Yasinovataya, and others.
The corresponding list of cities in Luhansk region (along with the affiliated settlements in their suburban areas) are Lugansk, Alchevsk, Anthracite, Bryanka, Golubovka, Dovzhansky, Kadiyevka, Pervomaisk, Rovenki, Hrustalniy and others.