Chain of events at Kramatorsk's airport on 04/15/2014 as it reported by Liga.net
Chain of events at Kramatorsk's airport at 04/15/2014 as it reported by Liga.net:
....The incident at the airport caused a stir among active Kramatorsk supporters of Donetsk people republic. On the town central square some people got into cars and went toward the airfield. Also there is information received that one of the public transportation minibus was stopped, all passengers lured out and separatists used it to go toward the scene.
As of 16.40, there was information about the two people with gunshot wounds.
There is also information that a lot of curious children ran toward the airfield. We ask the parents: please stop your children! At 16.55 in a sky of Kramatorsk reappeared the fighter.
17.35: " Witnesses said that at the airfield arrived " little green men "with the Guard ribbons and tried to take it by the storm - said newspaper " East Project. " - Ukrainian soldiers who guard the airfield began to repel the attack. They came to the aid of two combat aircraft that began to shoot at attacking from the air. Friendly " little green men " was repulsed. Now fly over the airfield there are three helicopters.
How many invaders there were is unknown, but to a civilian airfield came 12 men with machine guns. "
17.55: "Three military helicopters circling over a field near the airport - the website 6264 (phone code of Kramatorsk). - After some time, some people with well-known Russian St. George ribbons approached the airport; they were armed and asked civilians to remain calm. They gave an order to separatists at road block-post “do not shot at n the airplanes and helicopters.” Later they left. Increasingly civilians flocked to the airport. There was an order to civilians to lie on the ground in case of fire
18.30: " The men in unidentified military gear and with automatic weapons tried to storm the airport in Kramatorsk, said" Ukrainian Truth " (Ukrainska Pravda) with reference to the military source.
" But the airfield is secured, so the attack was repulsed. On our side, there were no casualties. And planes and helicopters were lifted into the sky, as it was not known how the assault might end, so to protect the hardware, they lifted it into the sky " - said. "
18.45: "Four militiamen were killed and two were injured during the assault by Ukrainian army at the airfield near Kramatorsk, told RIA Novosti’ source in the "People's Self-Defense. " - " At the airport, there are four dead, two wounded. All among the militia " - said the source adding that there is no information about the casualties among Ukrainian military unit.
According to him (RIA source), the fight ended, the militias were forced to retreat. " The battle for the airfield is stopped and militia retreated, the Ukrainian side took control of the airport," - he said. "