The DPR admitted that there could be up to 70,000 APU troops in Slavyansk and adjacent cities

He noted that inside Slavyansk itself "it is not very correct to count."

“If we look at the map of Donbass, look to the north, there one city flows into another, that is, from Avdiivka to Slavyansk, there is practically one urban agglomeration.

And there is a total grouping of troops, different experts call it differently, but 60-70 thousand for sure, ”the Deputy Minister of TASS quotes.

On the eve it became known that in the Donetsk People's Republic there are battles for Slavyansk.

On June 10, the Donetsk territorial defense headquarters reported the advance of the DPR and LPR forces in the direction of the city.

In early February, the deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR, Eduard Basurin, did not rule out that the number of Ukrainian military near the line of contact in Donbass reached 150,000 people.