Something is starting in Donetsk: militias are preparing for street battles, gathering tanks - social networks
Donetsk, October 24 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – Militiamen are actively moving around Donetsk on military equipment, local residents are discussing the upcoming assault on the airport or street battles in the city.
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“Direction from pl. Shakhterskaya on Kyiv Ave. is blocked. A concentration of people in camouflage with objects that look like weapons. “They are blocking the road at Vilnius, who knows why?” They said they were encircling the AP, placing tanks, and that’s why they blocked the road,” they write on social networks.
“A tank column has now moved along Kievsky Avenue in Donetsk towards the airport; the militia are preparing for street battles on the territory of Donetsk. Tanks in the streets took up fighting positions. Anti-aircraft installations were also spotted,” says a message posted in the “Reports from the Novorossiya Militia” group.
“The army of Novorossiya is on full combat readiness. Tank units of the militia are moving to their initial positions to repel the attack of the junta troops,” the group informs.
“In the first half of the day, residents of Donetsk reported that the sounds of volleys and explosions were heard. As of 13.30, the situation in the city remains tense. “We also ask city residents to remain calm, as the standard redeployment of military forces is taking place,” they said. in the press service of the city council.
It should be noted that earlier the representative of the Azov regiment, Andrei Dzindzya, said that pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk are preparing an attack on the airport.
“Now eyewitnesses see at the intersection of Artema Street and Kievsky Prospekt: tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery. The area has been cordoned off and no one except terrorists is allowed in. They are preparing an attack,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
As PolitNavigator reported, earlier Igor Strelkov said that Kyiv could launch a rapid attack on Donetsk and the direction of the Red Ray.
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