Facing Sloviansk's Town Hall are four armored vehicles, a self-propelled gun and a communications vehicles sent by the Kiev-based command to the Donetsk region.
"We've let them through.
The only condition is that the servicemen unclip their magazines through they retain the ammunition load. Our activists are bringing dinner shortly: we'll offer them a meal and then let them decide if they remain on our side or leave," Ponomaryov said.
The military has a choice: join the Donbass self-defense units or leave their weapons and military equipment and withdraw, he added.
Earlier, fighters of 25th airborne troops brigade sided with the self-defense activists. However, a considerable amount of armored vehicles belonging to Kiev-controlled military units is still amassed near Sloviansk.
[itar-tass.com]
16/4/14
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Armoured vehicles bearing the Russian flag are reportedly rolling through the eastern Ukrainian town of Kramatorsk and the city of Slovyansk.....
ReplyDeleteThe development came as at least 20 pro-Russian protesters armed with Kalashnikov rifles seized the city council building and entered the mayor's office in the city of Donetsk, also in the east, a day after authorities in Kiev launched an operation to oust pro-Moscow separatists.
In Kramatorsk, dozens of armed men in camouflage were seated on top of the three vehicles as they drove through the city accompanied by a military truck on Wednesday, according to the Agence France Presse news agency.
The Associated Press was also reporting that six combat vehicles flying Russian flags rolled into Slovyansk, and were "enthusiastically greeted" at pro-Russian checkpoints outside the city.........http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/04/pro-russia-vehicles-roll-through-east-ukraine-201441654155892670.html
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