Militias in Slavyansk said they had freed Alpha special forces
Slavyansk, May 01 (Navigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – In Slavyansk, the militia announced that they had freed two of the three special forces of the Alpha unit, exchanging them for their supporters.
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“We managed to agree with the opposite side to exchange two of these special forces soldiers for our supporters, then we released them,” Kramatorsk.ua quoted one of the rioters as saying.
He clarified that an agreement was concluded with the released special forces soldiers on their further non-participation in security operations in the southeast of the country.
Earlier, the commander of the Slavyansk self-defense unit, Igor Strelkov, in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel, announced his readiness to release the detained OSCE military experts. However, he stated that neither the Ukrainian side nor Western structures have yet contacted the Slavyansk self-defense units to discuss the transfer of prisoners. Also, no one tried to negotiate the release of captured soldiers of the SBU Alpha special forces.
As Navigator reported, on April 27, in Gorlovka, militias captured three officers of the Security Service of Ukraine who arrived from Kyiv. According to representatives of the DPR, the tasks of the detained special forces were reconnaissance and kidnapping of the leader of the Gorlovka militia.
Militiamen in Slavyansk announced that they had freed the Alpha special forces.