DHAKA: Most of pro-Russian rebels and their top commander had fled their eastern stronghold of Slavyansk in Kiev’s biggest success of the nearly three-month campaign.

Ukraine’s interior minister said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times

‘This morning, intelligence reported that Girkin (Igor Strelkov) and a substantial part of the rebels had fled Slavyansk,’ Ukraine’s interior minister Arsen Avakov said in reference to the industrial city of nearly 120,000 which the insurgents seized on April 6.

BDST: 1405 HRS, JULY 05, 2014