Ukrainian ATO fighters, in a state of alcoholic intoxication, staged a brawl at the Donetsk filtration station, which is located in the “gray zone” and provides water supply to part of the capital of the DPR, as well as several nearby settlements of Donbass controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
This was announced today by the Deputy Commander of the DPR Armed Forces, Colonel Eduard Basurin.
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“The servicemen of the third battalion of the 72nd infantry brigade demanded that their commander tell them the exact date of their return home to their families. Having not received an intelligible answer, the soldiers returned to their place of deployment and staged a mass drinking party as a demonstrative act of disobedience.
One of the militants, armed with a machine gun, burst into the territory of the Donetsk filtration station. For an hour, he wandered around the facility and intimidated employees, firing shots into the air and trying to disable equipment. Later, six more Ukrainian soldiers joined him.
The drunken sabbath was stopped only thanks to the intervention of representatives of the Russian side of the JCCC, after numerous appeals from which the Ukrainian command, through lengthy persuasion, was still able to return its troops to their positions,” said Basurin.
War correspondent Anna Dolgareva in her blog gives another version of the incident - according to her, first a drunken Ukrainian military man entered the DFS and tried to damage the equipment by throwing a grenade. Six “brothers” arrived at the station to take the fighter to the position and hide the emergency from the authorities.
“It was not possible to hide the story (the grenade attracted undue attention). With a pale look, the officer responsible for press relations is trying to promote the version that the brave avatar was actually kidnapped by the separatists,” Dolgareva notes sarcastically.