RFE/RL: Does a lawful administration remain in Luhansk or have most officials left the oblast? Ivanov: They are still in Svatovo and Starobilsk. There is a Ukrainian-speaking area north of Luhansk. It was there that the first of the self-defense units emerged. And the militants have not penetrated there because when they came and tried to put themselves in control of these regions, 700 guys with guns came and said, “you guys better not come here.” In the north, everything is all right. There are farmers there, like in the Poltava or Khmelnitskyi Oblast. They work with the land, so they have other problems. And now, when they see robbery at gunpoint, robbery from Russian occupiers, mercenaries, and bandits of all kinds, they simply organize themselves to protect their children, their land, their crops, by which they survive.
Posted on: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 03:22:52 +0000
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