Girkin strangely failed to say anything about who controls the strategic town of Popasna. That is in line with the global lame stream media.
There is a lot of money floating around Ukraine these days, and it would be interesting to see how easily people with questionable morals like Girkin can be bought off.
In my post #1, I stated if was from Girkin's channel on May 16. Popasna was taken by Russian May 7/8, a week earlier. Other than forming a salient into Ukrainian territory, which is bad enough, there is nothing particularly strategic about its location.
Girkin was writing about the overall situation in the Donetsk as he saw it. As I already stated in my first post, he is the Minister of Defense of the Donetsk People's Republic, and is the best position to know the overall picture in his area. He did not mention Popasna nor any of dozens other minor or major places. He was not writing about them so he did not mention them.
it would be interesting to see how easily people with questionable morals like Girkin can be bought off.
Look him up. He can't be bought off. He chose his side a long time ago.