The detainees were seized with eight pieces of firearms. About this on the page in the social network Facebook reported the press service of the SBU in Donetsk region.

According to the report, during the counter-diversion activities in the towns of Toretsk, Shcherbinovka and Kurdyumovka, law enforcement officers found a group of persons with weapons in their hands.

They were asked to surrender, but they refused. After which they were all detained. With them there were firearms, objects that looked like grenades and a large number of Molotov cocktails. All the confiscated was sent for examination, - the press service told..

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, on Sunday, March 12, the police of Lugansk and Donetsk regions switched to an enhanced version of service in connection with the deterioration of the situation in the territory under Ukraine's control in the ATU zone.