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Igor Strelkov: Advancing against us are real fascists, fascists in the very same sense that our predecessors understood this word. Monsters. Murderers. Bandits. Marauders. Pure Polizei. Banderovtsy, just as they once were.
Translated from Russian by Gleb Bazov
Q: What happened today? This is the key question that all of us, without exaggeration, want answers to.
Igor Strelkov: Last night, we effected a breakout from within a closing enemy ring, which was, in fact, already closed off. We performed a diversion against the positions of the enemy at the “Slavyansk” stella [Note: the Slavyansk city sign]. Our armoured group conducted the assault.
Unfortunately, and I will not hide it, the larger part of armoured group was eliminated in the course of the attack. This was so not so much connected with … well, regrettably, this was an error on the part of the commander of the armoured group led to this. He made a wrong decision in carrying out his assigned task.
Nevertheless, between 80%-90% of the personnel and 90% of the armaments were transferred out of the city. The number of dead and wounded is not that great, we have confirmed it. As well, we were able to evacuate a significant number of the families of our servicemen and other individuals that helped us, for whom to remain in the city was life threatening.
The breakthrough took the enemy completely by surprise. We adopted the necessary concealment measures. In that regard, we are awaiting those heroes that are now breaking through on their way to us, who gave us fire cover as a distraction from the trenches and demonstrated our presence on the defence positions.
Q: Igor Ivanovich, this deals with the outcome of what happened, but many are equally concerned about a plan for the future.
Igor Strelkov: We will continue our military activities. We will try not to make the mistakes we made in the past. These errors, in reality, were not mistakes as much as simply the consequence of a blatant lack of weapons and of ammunition.
We hope that we will be able to prepare for the next enemy offensive in a more diligent manner and without giving the enemy the opportunity to capture the key strongholds that they were able to take over so easily when we had only a few automatic rifles to our name.
Q: Some have claimed that your have apparently abandoned your responsibilities and removed yourself from your role, that you have even fled to Crimea, to Krasniy Perekopsk. Have your resigned or not?
Igor Strelkov: (smiling) Well, if this [around us] were Crimea or Krasniy Perekopsk, then, well … I don’t know … I guess so … But I am currently in Donetsk.
In addition to my direct duties I plan to create, tomorrow, by my Order as the Minister of Defence, a Central Military Council, which will include all the key field commanders, independent of their direct responsibilities, and where we will coordinate all questions related to the defence of the Donetsk People’s Republic and, possibly, in part, those dealing with the Lugansk People’s Republic, provided they are within our jurisdiction in the military theatre. And, moreover, until one is appointed, I will be performing the functions of the Military Commandant of the city, as well as those of the commander of the city garrison.
In other words, we will be preparing Donetsk for active defence, to ensure that it is not taken over by the enemy. Well, at the very least, as much as we did in Slavyansk, and certainly much more. In reality, with sufficient troops, Donetsk is much easier and more convenient to defend than the small city of Slavyansk.
Q: A final request. Regardless of how strongly I may sympathize with your circumstances, as a journalist, I have a duty to ask this question: with respect to those who remained in Slavyansk, what can you tell those people who stayed behind?
Igor Strelkov: (sighing deeply) First of all, I would like to ask them for their forgiveness for failing to retain the city. Our decision to break out of the city, not to die there, was motivated not only by a desire to save the garrison itself, which is natural for any commander, but also by the fact that we realized that we could not hold it, and that, meanwhile the city would be subjected to ever greater destruction and suffer even more victims.
Right now I am receiving information that, just as was expected, unfortunately, despite the fact that we evacuated the majority of those who helped and volunteered with us, the enemy has engaged in a massacre there. In Slavyansk, in Kramatorsk and in Nikolayevka.
Because today, pursuant to my order, we also withdrew our garrison from Kramatorsk. The battalion that defended it has been redeployed here, to Donetsk, in order to reinforce our positions. Defending it became entirely futile after the enemy had taken Artymovsk. It would simply have led to another city being encircled.
In any event, of course, the information that they engaged in a massacre there, first in the Artyom district, I am waiting for confirmation of it, but I already have several sources reporting the same information, that the NazGuard [Note: Ukrainian National Guard] exacted vengeance for their numerouslosses on the people [of Slavyansk]. All the same, our endeavour to avoid victims among the civilian population did not save the population from being victimized.
This just further confirms, for those who believe that, if the Militia leave without putting up a fight, it would save them from repressions, that it would not save them. Advancing against us are real fascists, fascists in the very same sense that our predecessors understood this word. Monsters. Murderers. Bandits. Marauders. Pure Polizei. Banderovtsy, just as they once were. Despite the fact that eighty years have passed. Not eighty, seventy.
They are genuine Nazis that hide behind the ideas of “United Ukraine” to perpetrate ethnic cleansing. And they are effecting it. And that is why we will be resisting in Donetsk just as we had been resisting them in Slavyansk, only far more successfully.
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