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Over 400 people are picketing the building of Ukraine's Presidential Administration and demanding that the military command make a decision on Ukrainian servicemen who were encircled by militants near Ilovaisk, Donetsk Oblast.

An Interfax-Ukraine reporter said they were demanding that reinforcements be sent to the military or an order be given to remove them from the encirclement.

The rally participants asked the leadership of the Defense Ministry, the General Staff and the National Guard to organize corridors to remove those wounded from the encirclement, as well as to provide intensive care vehicles.

The protesters are holding the flags of the Azov, Donbas battalions and the Right Sector Party.

According to them, they have obtained a promise to have a meeting in the Presidential Administration.