Video ID: 20140828-010 br br ¤MS Protester holds placard outside of Ministry of Defence office gates, Vozduhoflotskiy avenue, Kiev br ¤MS Protesters outside Ministry of Defence office gates br ¤WS Protesters outside Ministry of Defence office br ¤MS Protester outside Ministry of Defence office gates br ¤MS Protesters outside Ministry of Defence office br ¤WS Bird's eye view of protesters outside Ministry of Defence office br ¤SOT. Kiev resident (in Russian): "He calls me today and says: ‘Brother, do something! Go somewhere, to the president, fuck, to the General Staff. That’s it! We can’t stand this anymore. We don’t have water, we don’t have food we don’t have fucking anything! They fire Grads at us, Uragan and Smerch!’ He [the brother] is shell-shocked, he does not speak well. They soldiers lose morale. The guys don’t have anything – no armoured vehicles, they don’t have fucking anything. He, my brother, never served anywhere. And this bitch left him and now he sits in this building. Come out, bitch! br ¤WS View of gates from inside lobby of Ministry of Defence office br ¤MS Protesters outside Ministry of Defence office br ¤WS Bird's eye view of protesters outside Ministry of Defence office br ¤WS Protesters outside Ministry of Defence office, seen from distance, Vozduhoflotskiy avenue, Kiev br ¤SCRIPT br br Nearly 1,000 relatives and loved ones of pro-Kiev troops fighting in Ilovaysk demonstrated outside Kiev's Ministry of Defence building, Thursday. They are protesting against what they see as the General Staff's lack of action in relieving the fighters, who remain trapped and stranded in and around the eastern Ukrainian city. br br The protesters blocked the capital's Vozduhoflotskiy Avenue and called for the resignation of Ukrainian Defence Minister Valeriy Geletey. br br Militiamen of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DNRDPR) took control of Ilovaysk Wednesday, reportedly forcing Kiev forces to retreat from the area. The DNRDPR press service says all fighting in the vicinity of the town has finished and the situation has stabilised.