There was a very little number of officers in Slavyansk.
The Slavyansk militia headquarters reports on active clashes around the city.
Alexandr Chalenko:
It's believed that there were private military companies fighting against you in Slavyansk.
MSK The militias are ready to exchange prisoners, said the people's mayor of Slavyansk.
Get me right, when Slavyansk brigade, all ragged, dirty, right from
the trencehs entered Donetsk city.
Especially when they say that I have exchanged Slavyansk for Donetsk, that's a completely false opinion.
I have heard such a pretension to you in Donetsk, that, when leaving Slavyansk, you didn't destroy the arms depots.
According to him, 15 people were killed in Slavyansk, only four of them were armed, and the rest of 11 were civilians.
Alexandr Chalenko: You said that you didn't want to enter Donetsk,
where did you want to go after leaving Slavyansk in this case?
More substantively,
Burisma announced last month that it will now commence drilling near Slavyansk, where Ukrainian troops have been
dodging bullets while installing the company's hydraulic fracturing equipment.
I got an impression, that before our withdrawal from Slavyansk, Ukrainian side didn't even plan to storm Donetsk,
they thought that it would return back to them without a fight.
After Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, Mariupol was the focus of attention-
on May 9, during the anti-terrorist operation in the city, serious clashes between security forces and local militias took place.
Slavyansk, Ukraine- Leading world powers agreed
to slap fresh sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis as soon as Monday, as tensions mounted amid fears of an imminent Russian invasion.