One of the field commanders tried to seize power in Donetsk, now, is counter-terrorist operation, said Last news Commissioner of the Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic Alexander Beard.

" Igor Butler nicknamed the Devil with his squad stormed the building of the Department of internal Affairs ", - told the head of the Department.

before in the regional administration Last news said that in the battle of the main Directorate of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine in Donetsk region wounded five people.

" now undergoing anti-terrorist operation, and in case of resistance, the terrorists will be destroyed, " added the head of the Department.

He also said that the General Prosecutor's office DND already prosecuted under the criminal code according to clause " an Illegal seizure of power ".

Igor Butler is one of the field commanders operating in Donetsk region. His group is based in Gorlovka.

Butler had already been included in the Ukrainian media. In the middle of April in the Internet appeared the video, which a person claiming to be " the Lieutenant Colonel of the Russian army ", speaks to the police after the transition Gorlovka Affairs division under the supervision of the self-defense forces. Later, the Ukrainian media have realized this man in camouflage local resident Igor Butler. As reported by UNIAN referring to Donetsk portal " Island ", first of Besler " headed in Gorlovka municipal enterprise ritual services " Prostor ", which was dismissed in 2012 for the theft 38 fences and monuments, as well as for the extortion of money from the elderly for a place on the places of burial ". For its part, according to the information of the Internet-portal " URA-inform ", Butler and in the truth is a Colonel in retirement, but not Russian, and Ukrainian special purpose.


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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