“Now there are reports that the fighters of the armed formations of Ukraine are already giving signals and there are a certain number who are ready to lay down their arms, because they understand the futility of resistance,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

The ambassador also said that the Ukrainian military in these settlements were in a "full pot".

Earlier, Miroshnik said that Zolote and Gorskoye in the Lugansk People's Republic were taken under blockade.