About a hundred Ukrainian security forces took the side of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's Republic during the military operation in the Donbass, said Last news the commander of the headquarters of the militia DND Eduard Bacurin. "Part in the exchange of prisoners with the Ukrainian side refused to return and stayed here, but the vast number of Ukrainian military defected to the militia during fighting in the summer of last year," he said. "citizens did it consciously. They saw a real picture of what's going on here. Some of those who moved to the side of the militia DND, it proved exactly in the fighting, " - said Basurin. dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February came amid a sharp escalation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, which increased the forces began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.