DONETSK. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Three people died as a result of an act of sabotage staged on the Donetsk-Horlivka motorway, Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) militia spokesman Eduard Basurin told reporters on Tuesday.
"This morning, on February 22, Ukrainian saboteurs set off a mine on the Donetsk-Horlivka road. This terrorist act claimed the lives of three civilians moving in a vehicle on this motorway," Basurin said.
Donetsk officials said earlier that a Ukrainian sabotage group spotted inside the republic's Novoazovsk district was neutralized in an armed clash.