Donbass rebels will strike with an iron fist towards Crimea, - battalion commanders
Kyiv, November 10 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) - Commanders of volunteer battalions participating in military operations in Donbass believe that the militias are strengthening their positions and preparing for an offensive.
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They stated this on the Shuster Live program, commenting on information that observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe again noticed the movement of military equipment without identification marks near Donetsk, as reported in a report by the OSCE special monitoring mission.
According to the commander of the Donbass battalion, Semyon Semenchenko, in this way “they will try to force us into something obscene, into those agreements that Russia wants to force us to, or is preparing for an invasion.”
In turn, the commander of the Dnepr-1 battalion, Yuri Bereza, said: “On August 24, the war with Russia began. We are trying to shut up, talk about anything, about separatism, internal conflict. But this information is confirmation that there is a military operation of another state against our homeland. Until we close our border, we will have a war. Our Western partners must understand this. Ukraine cannot be left alone.”
Deputy commander of the Aidar battalion Valentin Likholit, military equipment is accumulating in the buffer zone. “The question is whether they are ready to move on. We had a truce, and they were accumulating an iron fist to strike the Donetsk and Lugansk regions,” Likholit said.
According to the commander of the 204th tactical aviation brigade, Yuli Mamchur, pro-Russian rebels will advance towards Crimea.
Donbass rebels will strike with an iron fist toward Crimea, battalion commanders say.