A militia commander Slavyansk Igor Strelkov started the organization of defense of Donetsk and hopes she will be more successful than Slavyansk.

According to Strelkova, following the retreat from Slavyansk 80 to 90 percent of the personnel and 90 percent of the weapons withdrawn from the city.

"The number of dead and wounded is not very large at the break. Also managed to show a significant part of the families of servicemen and persons who carried out the us aid, which was extremely dangerous to stay in the city", - he said in an interview posted on the official website of the militia icorpus.ru.

According to him, the successful breakthrough "of closing the ring" contributed "diversionary attack on the stele "Sloviansk" our armed group". "Most of this bronzegruppe died," acknowledged Shooters.


"Our decision to leave the city, not to die in it, was caused not only by the desire to save the garrison, but that we understand that we will not be able to hold him back, and the city will suffer even more destruction, more casualties," he explained retreat militia from Slavyansk.

The commander of the host asked the residents of Slavyansk apology "for what we have not managed to defend the city". According to him, after the retreat of the militias "the enemy made it a massacre: the national guard under responded by peaceful residents for all their great losses". "For those who believe that if militia will go without a fight, it will save them from repression - no, not save," said Shooters.

Now he's going to continue fighting. "We will try not to make those mistakes made in the past. We can prepare for the next attack of the enemy more closely and not to provide at his disposal the key points that he once captured so easy when we had two or three machine to a checkpoint," promised the Shooters. According to him, Donetsk much easier and defends better than a small Slavyansk.

Tomorrow Shooters is going to create the Central military Council, "which included all the major warlords, where we will agree on the issues of further defense of the Donetsk national Republic".

Also Shooters is going to fulfill the duties of the military commandant of Donetsk while on this place would not be someone assigned, and the garrison commander.