The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that during the fighting in the area of Marinci, as if it were captured 12 soldiers of the militia, and among them one Russian.




"after the operation I can say that Marinka fully released, detained twelve, and among them the citizen of the Russian Federation ", - he said, reports the news Agency. Remember, may 17, the media reported the detention in the settlement Happiness of the military, who called himself a Russian contract soldiers serving in the special forces - Alexander of Alexander and Evgeny Erofeev. However, later the same day 1st Deputy commander of people's militia LNR Sergey Kozlov said that in reality the Kiev military won captured 2 soldiers of the people's militia of the Luhansk national Republic. The Russian defense Ministry has revealed that the detainees in Ukraine, the militia are former Russian military. In the Russian defense Ministry asked them to stop the torture and release of two former soldiers. Relatives of captured Russian citizens have also confirmed that they had resigned from the army. On may 22, a court in Kiev has arrested Alexander and Erofeev. They are charged with terrorism. On may 27, the Ukrainian media said that the detainee under the Happiness of the citizen of Russia Alexander Alexandrov wants to cooperate with the investigation. However Erofeev to assist the investigation did not want to, then was transferred to a jail.

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