Moscow - Donetsk, April 16 (Navigator - Mikhail Stamm) - Chief of Staff of the Donetsk People's Army Pavel Paramonov arrived in the regional center from the city of Efremov, Tula region, Kommersant correspondents from Donbass report. However, according to the newspaper, Russia is doing its best to interfere with the attempts of its citizens to join the rebels in the southeast of Ukraine.
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“I was invited through social networks, I came and try to justify the trust shown,” Paramonov told the newspaper.
He is far from alone among those from Russia who want to support Donetsk protesters. At the entrance to the administration building there is a notice: “Cossacks arriving from Russian regions should call Victor.”
Victor (last name not specified) confirmed that Cossacks are indeed arriving from Russia, but this process is “not of a massive nature.” “I won’t give exact numbers, this is strategic information. Not everyone is able to cross the border. And Russia is interfering with this process. Even the atamans who sent the Cossacks to Crimea suffered,” he said, without specifying, however, what sanctions were applied to the atamans.”
The chief of staff claims that the police and Ukrainian military stationed in the Donetsk region are not eager to interfere in the situation and even turn to activists with a request to block their units - so that they have something to explain their inaction to Kyiv. “We hope for Russia’s support, but the most important thing that people want now is that a civil war does not start and blood is not shed,” says the chief of staff.”