
The commander of the terrorists, detained the day before in the Novoidarsky district of the Lugansk region, was a 41-year-old resident of the regional center Vladimir Maretsky, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. It is reported by "LIGABBININFOR" with reference to the press service of the SBU.
During the search, Maretsky discovered the certificate of the Don Cossacks No. 00417 with the image of the St. George tape, issued by Gennady Tsypkalkalov, the first deputy "People's Governor" of the Lugansk Region Valery Bolotov, and certified by the seal of the regional administration with text in Ukrainian. As indicated in the certificate, its validity period is until December 31, 2014.
The video recording of the interrogation of Maretsky was published on the Internet.
Also, among the 13 detained terrorists, the 25-year-old employee of the Dzhankoy Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of the occupied Crimea Boris Saklakov, a native of Alchevsk in the Lugansk region.
The detention of terrorists who attacked polling stations in the Novoidarsky district became known the night before . Then it was reported that in the district center - the village of Novoidar - not 13, but 14 militants were captured. Two more terrorists were killed in battle with the security forces; The rest disappeared. In the evening of May 25, a photo of the detainee Maretsky appeared in the media.
In total, the militants attacked six polling stations. According to the First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Vitaly Yarema, the terrorists used weapons registered at the former military bases in Crimea. At the same time, among the detainees, four residents of the Luhansk region and seven Crimeans.
The regional head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said that the terrorists killed a 23-year-old citizen of Ukraine in Novoidar. In addition, three people were taken to a district hospital with gunshot wounds. These are residents of Lugansk 49 and 41 years old, as well as a 76-year-old resident of the Stanichno-Lugansk region of the region.