MOSCOW. April 16 (Interfax) - Two columns of armored vehicles are entering Kramatorsk, Kramatorsk self-defense forces told Interfax.
"Two columns - tanks and armored vehicles - entered. The first column stopped. Tanks move into the city for now," a self-defense representative said.
Unknown persons shot at several self-defense checkpoints around Kramatorsk, the representative said.
The column of armored vehicles is trying to go to Slovyansk from Kramatorsk, the representative told Interfax. "Tank subdivisions are trying to come at us from Kramatorsk via Slovyansk suburbs and our militia men are trying to negotiate with them, however servicemen warn that that have the order to shoot everyone in legs if anyone gets in their way," the representative said.