The national police of Donetsk region has recorded 411 criminal offenses committed on the territory of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic in the past ten months, Head of the National Police branch in Donetsk region Vyacheslav Abroskin has said.

"In ten months of this year, 411 criminal offenses have been registered on the temporarily occupied territory," Abroskin wrote on his Facebook page.

He said that the largest number of complaints – 257 came from the occupied Donetsk, 53 from Horlivka, 36 from Makiyivka, 25 from Debaltseve, 17 from Yenakiyeve and eight from Yasynuvata.

The largest number of offences falls for car thefts (105 instances), theft of personal property (58) and fraud (21), Abroskin said.

"We also know of 25 murders committed in the occupied territory and 21 cases of abduction of citizens, in addition we have received reports of 17 incidents of illegal deprivation of freedom," the Donetsk regional police chief said.