22 Jan 2015 13:26

DPR secession from Ukraine irreversible - self-proclaimed republic's head

DONETSK. Jan 22 (Interfax) - Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) head Alexander Zakharchenko says the self-proclaimed republic's secession from Ukraine is an irreversible process.

"This is an irreversible process. An attack on the town of Opytny in the Avdiivka area has begun today," Zakharchenko told reporters on Thursday.

Before the press briefing, Zakharchenko and the audience commemorated the victims of the Donetsk bus stop bombardment in a minute of silence, an Interfax correspondent reports.

Zakharchenko gave a negative assessment of regional situation prospects and called "the process of the DPR withdrawal from the Ukrainian political field irreversible."