The decision to replace nationalist battalions in Shirokino in the Marines one of the tools of procrastination, said the head of the people's Council of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic (DND) Andrey Purgin.

first in the General staff military power of Ukraine stated that in Shirokino is the rotation of forces, derived from the village volunteer battalions, in their place come the Commissioners of the marine corps of the armed forces.

"Replacing nationalist battalions of naval infantry is stretching in time of the situation. These changes will allow infinitely to discuss the topic of Shirokino, " said he.

Shirokino is located on the shore of the sea of Azov between Mariupol (controlled by security officers) and Novoazovsk (controlled by the militia DND). In early February Shirokino was taken by the soldiers of the Ukrainian battalion " Azov ". Since then, the two sides continue in this area of so-called artillery and mortar duels.

The military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of Donbas lasts more than a year. At the talks on February 12 were achieved consensus on stopping the fire, the withdrawal of heavy weapons, introduction to the Constitution of Ukraine changes on decentralization of power and the consolidation of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".

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