Militants from the Donbass battalion, banned in Russia, used trucks to move the bodies of civilians killed in the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics to a mass grave, Sergey Mikhailov, a captured Ukrainian counterintelligence officer and former agent of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), told TASS. According to him, the mass burial sites were located in forests along the banks of the Donets River near the village of Krymskoye in the LPR. Even then, the Ukrainian authorities were trying to get rid of people who sought to uncover the truth," the counterintelligence officer said. According to the former SBU agent, the bodies of deceased Donbass battalion militants were also brought to the same site. Earlier, TASS reported that a Ukrainian counterintelligence officer surrendered after affiliating with militants of the Donbass battalion to avoid being deployed on an undercover mission within the Donbass militia.