Police department

In Donetsk, 300 police officers voluntarily supported the DPR terrorists. According to 112 Ukraine, the adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the country Anton Gerashchenko said, citing the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Donetsk region Konstantin Pozidaev.

“We have information on all these people,” Gerashchenko added. “In the near future we will publicly publish it so that these citizens know that they are waiting for a long prison dates or life on the run.”

Loyalty to Ukraine, the official also noticed, retained only 10-15 percent of the police. “The part of the insignificant left the terrorists to fight,” he said. “The significant was demoralized and will not be able to continue to work in the police - we just will not allow this.”

So far, Gerashchenko said , 1,700 policemen out of 16 thousand were dismissed in the Donetsk region, that is, about 11 percent. “This process is in full swing,” the official added.

The Minister’s adviser spoke in particular about the dismissal of the head of the city department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the recently released Dzerzhinsk and his deputy, "who, despite the status of the lieutenant colonel, was an injectable drug addict and robbed drug addicts together with terrorists." A criminal case was opened against the former head of the city police, Gerashchenko said.