REUTERS
As a result of fighting in Donetsk airport on Tuesday the Ukrainian military lost control of a third of the territory of the airport’s new terminal, a soldier of the 80th airmobile brigade has told Ukrainian television channel Hromadske.tv.
The soldier said that two posts in the new terminal were destroyed by Russian tanks. Another post was blown up by Ukrainian military to make a barricade and protect against fire.
At the same time, the Ukrainian soldiers have not received an order from the command to win back lost positions.
"The area is lost, there must be a thorough fight back to secure the positions where the Russians are: the old terminal, the [monastery] and other positions," the soldier talking to Hromadske.tv said.