by Elizaveta Antonova (Sloviansk)

A Gazeta.ru correspondent met with Vyacheslav Ponomariov, the self-proclaimed mayor of Sloviansk and asked him about the fate of official mayor Nelya Shtepa, which currency should be used in the Donetsk Republic, and what he would like to say to the President of the United States.

That’s us in Kramatorsk (my interlocutor shows a photo of armed men near the buildings of Kramatorsk police station)

I was there yesterday. But there were no arms at that time.

That was not yesterday, that was during our first assault. There was a real shooting. But we had an objective – avoid bloodshed. On the third floor they began to shoot at our guys, so our guys put them down… I mean not killed, but suppressed with fire. They squatted and we came in.

It sounds terrible. But yesterday in Kramatorsk there were no weapons. Even…