Donetsk, Oct 31 — DAN. Shakhtyorsk authorities will temporarily administer five Artyomovsk district settlements which were recently liberated from Ukrainian invaders, according to the decree signed by interim Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin on Monday.

The settlement of Opytnoye and the villages of Zaitsevo, Vesyolaya Dolina Otradovka and Ivangrad are located outside the town of Artyomovsk. They were liberated from Ukrainian troops in the first half of October.

The decree has come into force.*jk