The commander of the "Donbass" Semenchenko denied the dismissal
The people's choice Verkhovna Rada semen Semenchenko refuted before information about his resignation from the post of commander of the Ukrainian battalion " Donbass ".
first some media said that Semenchenko resigned from the post of commander of the battalion "Donbass" in connection with the fact that it looks Like it was difficult to combine it with the work of the MP.
"The information disseminated on my is fake. No statements about the dismissal I did not write, page hacked, " said Semenchenko in the air ".
in the past month differences in the ranks of the battalion "Donbass" has led to the transition of the division of subordination of nazvanie in the subordination of the Ministry of defence. As said the battalion commander Donbass Ukraine Vyacheslav Vlasenko, of the nearly 800 soldiers of the battalion's service agreement in nazvanie agreed to continue for about 90 people. The other part of the soldiers joined the battalion Donbass Ukraine, emerging at the base of military power of Ukraine and subordinated to the Ministry of defence.
The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict began almost 5, 7 thousands of civilians. The resolution of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, during meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of the Russian Federation and the OSCE. The next meeting of the contact group on 12 February ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, a cease-fire in the Donbass with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of a security zone. Soon after informing truce in the Donbass resumed shooting, parties blame each other in violation of the "silence mode" and reported that they only return fire. Kiev is considering an appeal to the UN and the EU on the introduction of Donbass peacekeepers.
Just a special operation involved about a half-dozen battalions, which are financed from private sources. So, battalions " Azov ", " Aidar ", " Donbass ", "Dnepr-1" and "Dnepr-2" financed by the oligarch and the Governor Igor Kolomoisky, against whom in Russia prosecuted under the criminal code in accordance with paragraph " use of prohibited means and methods of warfare ". It also many times been accused of sponsoring extremist groups " the Right sector.