Demenko said that he and his group of 34 people were subordinate to the head of the city's territorial defense, Ivan Romanenko.
“He tried to arrange two acts of sabotage, we dissuaded him.
People told him that it was not worth doing this, since the city was liberated without shots, children were walking around, there were no problems, ”said the ex-commander of RIA Novosti.
According to him, he "constantly hears arrivals" of the civilian population from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“At the person who went out with the dog for a walk, or the child next to whom he flew in, he got scared and didn’t eat for four days,” Demenko said.
A Ukrainian prisoner of war, deputy head of the command post of the 56th OMB of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant Colonel Valentin Altukhov, previously spoke about the orders of the commander to shoot at residential buildings.