Militants keep 80 hostages in Donetsk Oblast Administration basement
Donetsk Lenin District deputy Dmitri Verzilov has reported the fact.
Drunk people put a sack on his head and detained him for a few hours last Friday although he simply wanted to talk to representatives of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic, he claimed.
There is a basement in the building, Verzilov said. “It was very dark there, the basement was full of people, there were about 80 of them. People are hungry and thirsty like in a punishment cell. It was dark and scary, water was dripping from the ceiling,” the ex-deputy told Ukrainian Radio Liberty.
Dmitry Verzilov spent only a few hours there but the contact with terrorists dramatically changed his views.
“I thought that the DPR really had some political position like they had said on TV so I went there. And I saw bandits. Ordinary people are unaware of it,” the ex-deputy said.
Some of the hostages are held in the building to ransom, Verzilov said.
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