Posted on 04/27/2015 6:58:22 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
When he joined the separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine, Russian businessman Bondo Dorovskikh thought he would be fighting hordes of fascists bent on victimizing the local population.
The reality on the ground turned out to be quite different.
Instead of defending eastern Ukraine, Dorovskikh says he found himself stranded in the town of Alchevsk, where pro-Russian rebels controlling the area spent their days looting and drinking.
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Dorovskikh says he is not an exception. Disenchanted Russian volunteers, he claims, are streaming back home. He is himself so upset that he is mulling enrolling in Ukraine's National Guard to help stamp out the separatists.
But for now, he has a message for all those still tempted to join the insurgency. "Don't go there," he urges them. "We are told on television this is like the Second World War, but in fact it's an act of pure aggression. This is not a war that's worth risking the most precious thing you have."
(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...
The Russians causing trouble in the Ukraine are thugs and criminals? Who would have thought?
That said the LPR Ghost battalion does not enjoy an especially good reputation within the NAF and especially amongst the Donbas battalions
What would make this article from RFERL suspect if it was the only one of its kind. But it’s not, it only repeats what had been said elsewhere, albeit in the English language. Russian and Ukrainians reports are even more numerous and they too paint Donbas as something that is developing into a European Somalia, where abductions for ransom, car jackings, robbery and property theft are have become the norm. They had to institute death penalties for looting because it was such a problem. One of the common scenarios is when a man with a gun comes to the house and says that the house and everything in it has been “nationalized” for the good of the new state. Donetsk isn’t Mogadishu (yet), but it’s not a place to visit
LOL...you're too funny. It's connected to the party Svoboda? If I recall, radio Svoboda has been operational since the 50s, long before the party of that name had existed. In pretty much every Slavic language, "svoboda" means "freedom", which was what RFERL was about during the cold war. Radio Free Europe did more for the collapse of the Communism than a million of yous (or thousand of mes) ever did, so the respect it gets is well earned.
I have a fluffy cat named Svoboda...
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