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Eight Spaniards arrested after returning from combat in Ukraine
El Pais ^ | 2-27-2015 | Jorge A. Rodriguez

Posted on 02/27/2015 5:27:49 AM PST by tcrlaf

The National Police on Friday detained eight Spaniards suspected of fighting alongside pro-Russian forces in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The arrests took place in Asturias, Catalonia, Extremadura, Murcia, Navarre and Madrid. Three of the suspects are former members of the Spanish armed forces, and one is confirmed to have been on the frontline, according to anti-terrorist sources. The men are all aged between 20 and 30 years old.

The eight Spaniards belong to several different communist organizations, and had received support from an unofficial pro-Russian European network. The operation was completed after three of the men returned to Spain during February – the last of the men arrived last week.

Police sources have not yet stated whether Rafael Muñoz Pérez, 27, and Ángel Davilla-Rivas, 22, were among the detainees. The pair were last year confirmed to have joined the Vostok Batallion, under the orders of Igor Strelkov, the head of the Armed Forces of the People’s Republic of Donetsk.

The identification of the detainees was facilitated by the suspects’ habit of posting photos of themselves with military equipment on social networking sites

(Excerpt) Read more at elpais.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: arrest; civilwar; russianukrainianwar; spain; ukraine
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Most nations have laws against nationals participating in foreign wars.

There have been a lot of foreign volunteers on both sides of this conflict.

1 posted on 02/27/2015 5:27:49 AM PST by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

Seems to be quite a number of Serbs fighting alongside the Russians. No idea what Serbian law (if any) says about this.


2 posted on 02/27/2015 6:02:35 AM PST by donozark (On the other side of fear lies freedom)
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To: tcrlaf

It makes a difference which side you are fighting for, our side, or for the enemy, Spain is a part of our NATO alliance, and these traitors were supporting Russia.


3 posted on 02/27/2015 8:48:49 AM PST by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: donozark

“Seems to be quite a number of Serbs fighting alongside the Russians.”

Serbs, French, Pro-Russian Chechens, Spanish, Hungarians, a few Brits, a few Italians, Greeks, a couple of Indians, and even an American from Texas.

On the other side, we’ve seen a couple of Americans (not advisors, but volunteers. One was killed a few months ago.), Poles, at least a couple of Bulgarians, some Somali’s, Anti-Russian Chechens, and a few anti-Russian Jihadi’s.

The Kolomoiski and Tartur Merc Battalions (Donbas/Dnepro) seem to have many foreigners in them.


4 posted on 02/27/2015 9:09:20 AM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: ansel12

“our side”

“Our side” being the Pro-Obamunist, Pro-Soros, Pro-Corrupt Oligarchs, right?


5 posted on 02/27/2015 9:10:31 AM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

No Jane Fonda, our side being the United States and NATO against Russian aggression.


6 posted on 02/27/2015 9:15:01 AM PST by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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lol...

Pretty arrogant of you to think that Obama and Soros are on “America’s side”, isn’t it??


7 posted on 02/27/2015 9:21:14 AM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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Let’s not forget, Chechen Muslim Battalions are fighting for Russia too. Yes, apparently, they are on both sides. http://news.sky.com/gallery/1389941/ukraine-chechen-death-battalion.

OSCE or others need to observe the border and shut it down.


8 posted on 02/27/2015 9:37:13 AM PST by BeadCounter
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You mean that to you the American military and our British and Polish, and NATO allies are the enemy, and Russia is the side that you have chosen over us.

We have men and materials having to be moved forward to protect us from the Russians, with new military formations being formed to react quickly to wherever they threaten next, and here you are playing Jane Fonda.

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9 posted on 02/27/2015 9:38:28 AM PST by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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Russia should really let those states like Chechnya secede, the demographics going on in that country and people talk about France??

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/08/predicting-a-majority-muslim-russia

Although, this is not what this conflict is about, it’s been said, Russia could survive as a non-Muslim nation quite a bit longer if it was united with Ukraine.


10 posted on 02/27/2015 9:45:00 AM PST by BeadCounter
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“The eight Spaniards belong to several different communist organizations, and had received support from an unofficial pro-Russian European network.”

Ah, what a surprise :)))

I wonder If these are the same clowns with funny mustaches that Kremlin propaganda were using as a kind of freak show last year... I guess they wanted to give it “international anti-fascist movement” outlook or something... but apparently they finally realized it was too stupid even by their (your) standards, so they pushed them off the payroll list.

11 posted on 02/27/2015 11:50:37 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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Story updated: Communists and Nazis are fighting for the Russians. http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/02/27/inenglish/1425051026_915897.html That’s what these Spaniards say.


12 posted on 03/04/2015 7:43:44 PM PST by BeadCounter
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