Armed supporters of Donetsk People's Republic at Donetsk publishing house
DONETSK. June 2 (Interfax) - Armed supporters of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic came to the building of the publishing house Donetchina on Monday, demanding that the editorial policies of the newspaper Donbass and Vecherny Donetsk be changed.
"Representatives of the Donetsk People's Republic are now inside the building. They are preventing journalists and staff members from leaving the building. Some ten armed people have occupied two floors of the publishing house," a staff member of Donetchina told Interfax.
The staff of the publishing house said the supporters of the Donetsk People's Republic have expressed their outrage by the special editions of newspapers on the unity of Ukraine. Negotiations are being conducted with the administration of the paper Vecherny Donetsk and the editor-in-chief of the paper Donbass has been taken from the building and his location is currently unknown, the staff of the publishing house said.