In militant groups considerable losses are recorded, among mercenaries mass desertion began.

The representative of Anti-terrorist operation colonel Andrey Lysenko told about it at a traditional daily briefing today, gives Censor.NET.

"Owing to productive actions of armed forces of Ukraine in response to attacks and approaches of groups of fighters and Russian Armed Forces near N of the item of Popasnaya, Debaltsevo, Uglegorsk and others recorded considerable losses among fighters of so-called "DNR" and "LNR", "Cossacks", the Russian mercenaries and the military personnel of the Russian Federation, and also enemy military equipment. It leads to mass unauthorized leaving by fighters of illegal paramilitary groups. According to operational data, retreat of fighters near Uglegorsk was constrained by protecting groups of a division of internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation of F. Dzerzhinsky", - he told .

"Due to the big losses in the ranks of The illegal armed formations, suffered in fights with the Ukrainian military, fighters try to carry out so-called "mobilization" which encounters resistance of locals of occupied territories. Fighters threaten to resort to terror. So in. Rovenki the management of so-called "commandant's office" of the city threatens with executions of refuseniks", - Lysenko .

Source: http://censor.net.ua/