KIEV, Nov. 24 – The failure to connect gas and power to Triokhizbenka in Novoaidar district on Sunday was due to shelling by rebels, said Hennadiy Moskal, head of Luhansk Regional Administration.

Triokhizbenka has had no gas for three weeks and no power for over one month.

"Rebels of the Cossack troops headed Ataman Kozitsyn did not allow restoring gas and power supply lines destroyed. We tried to attract OSCE as intermediaries. On Friday, during a meeting with the chairman of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMMU) Ertugrul Apakan I again in a bristly form asked the mission to do at least one concrete deed – to help saving Triokhizbenka, agree on ceasefire with Kozitsyn and allow repairmen to get to the site. Representatives met Kozitsyn several times and on Saturday evening he guaranteed ceasefire," the press service of Moskal reported on Monday.