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Donetsk/Kyiv -- Armed people have attempted to storm a military unit deployed in Donetsk, an Interfax correspondent reported on Sunday evening, June 30.

Interior Ministry Forces unit No. 3037 located on the premises of a military school was put under fire. There were explosions and a fire started on the unit’s territory. Tenants of nearby apartment houses had to hide in basements.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov wrote on Facebook that servicemen of Donetsk military unit No. 3037 passed through militants’ roadblocks and joined the army operation.

“More than 300 Guard servicemen led by Lt. Col. Borteev and carrying Ukrainian flags broke through terrorist roadblocks and joined the antiterrorist operation forces in sector D,” the minister emphasized.

He said the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic gave the servicemen an ultimatum. They were told to lay down arms and to pass the unit’s arms depot to the DPR.

Avakov said the arms depot was mined and blown up on his orders. “I gave the order to prevent the armaments and ammunition stored in that depot from falling into the hands of terrorists,” he said.

Earlier on Sunday, June 30 Donetsk military unit No. A-1402 was taken under control by the Donetsk People’s Republic.

“The militants took control of military unit No. A-1402 on Stratonavtiv Street today,” the DPR press service told Interfax without providing any details.

Military unit No A-1402 is an air defense regiment armed with self-propelled air defense missile launchers Buk.

The militants took control of military unit No. 3004 on June 26.