The Siberian-born Antyufeyev AKA Shevtsov sent by Russia to Ukraine said: “I am the authority. I have no problems... If they do not understand that, that’s their problem. I am a professional in making (people) understand.”
“Antyufeyev knows how to operate in such situations, how to suppress opposition and dissent... create an atmosphere of fear in which people will support any action by the separatists.”
FSB Colonel Strelkov, whose real name is Igor Girkin, left his home in a Moscow suburb in February traveling to Crimea where he occupied the regional parliament along with other fighters shortly before Russia annexed the predominantly ethnic Russian region.
Their problem is that they took the Crimea without any opposition and thought they could do the same with eastern Ukraine.
But somebody stood up and said: “Hey — wait a minute there, Vlad”.