LUHANSK. Sept 3 (Interfax) - About a hundred Ukrainian National Guard soldiers have left the Luhansk airport through "a green corridor" provided by the militia, head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic Igor Plotnitsky said.
"They [the Ukrainian servicemen] asked for a truce, "a green corridor" for the evacuation of their remaining forces, and this process is taking place now. We decided in principle that a senseless murder on our part and on their part will not do any good," Plotnitsky said in a Lifenews television program aired on Tuesday.
"There are not many people left there, slightly more than a hundred, and there used to be around 300 of them. They have sent their vehicles and we permit them to leave our territory after an examination," he said.
The LPR head said also that the frontline stretched out from Yuvileine to Alchevsk after the militia had taken control of the Luhansk airport.