Five people were injured and hospitalized during the storming of the Ukrainian National Guard military base N3035 in Luhansk on May 28 evening, said Pavlo Malysh, the director of the health department of the Luhansk regional state administration.
“Five are in the hospital with injuries. Three of them are critical,” Malysh told Interfax.
He said he did not distinguish among troops and militia so he did not specify from which side those hospitalized were.
Later, a spokesperson for the Luhansk regional police said that one of the injured was a soldier. He was shot in the head and suffered brain damage, and is currently in very critical condition “on life support.”
The other four are militia fighters aged between 26 and 39, according to the Interior Ministry. They suffered gunshot wounds to the thigh and chest.
Both the Luhansk regional administration’s health department and the regional police confirmed that no one had been killed in the skirmish.
Earlier the National Guard of Ukraine said that as a result of an overnight standoff the militia had managed to seize several buildings on the grounds of the National Guard base, as well as “part of law enforcers’ weapons.”
