“Literally, the front is on fire, breaks every minute, and this is only near Donetsk, I am silent now about the southern borders, Gorlovka and so on,” he said.
According to him, "this night in Donetsk today is as happy as it is extremely tense."
“There is also a curfew, and many have been evacuated, there are no crowds of people here, but whoever could, these are mainly security forces and civil servants, came here [in the center of Donetsk] to express their delight and joy from what is happening,” Pegov said.
According to him, fighting is going on along the entire front line.
Pegov said that "very alarming information is coming in that there are already dead among the reservists."
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on Russia's recognition of the independence of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.