While Kiev tries to eliminate the “foreign invader”, Russia Today reports that dozens of Ukrainian soldiers sent to Slavyansk in eastern Ukraine now withdraw.

According to the publication, the soldiers that participate in the “anti-terrorist operation” of the Ukrainian government withdraw in convoy from the city.

At the same time, as the Russian agency Interfax reports, approximately 300 Ukrainian soldiers have agreed to abandon their tanks and their weapons and return to their base, after negotiations with Slavyansk.

In fact, some of them expressed their support for pro-Russian demonstrators and their wish to avoid civil war.