Five militiamen wounded in Shakhtersk, Donetsk region on the first day weekend in the process of fighting that destroyed several Ukrainian combat vehicles, said in a Twitter Twitter is a self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic.


first it was announced that a large group of Ukrainian security forces surrounded the area of the cities of Torez and Shakhtersk. Equally Saturday night Donetsk residents were concerned about the explosions of residential settlements Marinka located to the West of the city. Militiamen said they had managed to repel the attack of the Ukrainian military to Marinko.

according to the new information provided by DND, fighting between the Mining and Torez on the first day weekend evening continued, Militiamen broke there are several military vehicles of the enemy. The militia was finally supplanted by Ukrainian law-enforcers from Mariinka and Alexandrovka, killing two tanks and two armored personnel carrier.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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