The Russian Military in Donetsk Province Stated that the Command Stormed the Wounded on Crutches: "For a One-Way Combat mission."

A group of eleven Russian soldiers from the Russian Federation's 5th separate armed guard mobile firing brigade stated that the command was storming wounded fighters, some of whom were travelling with crutches. The brigade was formed at the base of a battalion of Donetsk separatists called Oplat, bearing the name of Alexander Zaharchenko, the killed leader of the so-called DNR, and stationed in the territory of the Donetsk region of Ukraine.