10 Feb 2015 14:19

DPR claims Ukrainian soldiers unaware of Debaltseve pocket

DONETSK. Feb 10 (Interfax) - The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Defense Ministry alleges that Ukrainian troops have been fully surrounded in Debaltseve.

"The soldiers stationed near Debaltseve who wish to surrender still do not know that we have surrounded them. The command does not tell them about this and they keep thinking they have a chance to break through," Eduard Basurin of the Defense Ministry of the DPR said.

Basurin said he had learned from captured Ukrainian servicemen that the command was hiding the real state of affairs from the surrounded Ukrainian soldiers.