Ulson Gunnar — Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis “Suddenly” a Problem as Power Grows

US caught supporting not only terrorist proxies in the Middle East proxied but also neo-Nazis in Ukraine? Oh my!

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Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis “Suddenly” a Problem as Power Grows

Ulson Gunnar

The New Cold War — Academia.edu: Ivan Katchanovski, Interview with Telepolis magazine (Germany) Concerning New Revelations in the Maidan Massacre Investigation.

Ivan Katchanovski PhD is a researcher and lecturer at the School of Political Studies of the University of Ottawa. The English text of the above interview is published online here on Academia.edu. The original in German is here.

Interviewer: Can you give a very short summary of your theory about the sniper-killings on 20th February in Kiev?

IK: My academic study of the Maidan massacre concludes that this mass killing was a false flag operation, which was rationally planned and carried out with a goal of the overthrow of the government and seizure of power. It found various evidence of the involvement of an alliance of the far right organizations, specifically the Right Sector and Svoboda, and oligarchic parties, such as Fatherland. Concealed shooters and spotters were located in at least 20 Maidan-controlled buildings or areas. The various evidence that the protesters were killed from these locations include some 70 testimonies, primarily by Maidan protesters, several videos of “snipers” targeting protesters from these buildings, comparisons of positions of the specific protesters at the time of their killing and their entry wounds, and bullet impact signs. The study uncovered various videos and photos of armed Maidan “snipers” and spotters in many of these buildings. Unreported revelations from the Maidan massacre trial and the investigations by the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine, such as forensic ballistic and medical reports, testimonies of eyewitnesses in the investigation documents, newly released videos, and court rulings concerning investigations of the far right involvement in the Maidan massacre, corroborated major findings of my study.

I presented an expanded and updated version of my Maidan massacre paper at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco in September 2015. This paper is freely downloadable without any registration from the Social Sciences Research Network and APSA conference websites, and it is also available on my Academia and Researchgate websites. My chapter summarizing the Maidan massacre study is scheduled for publication on February 11, 2016 in a Routledge book edited by two Canadian political scientists. My article, which includes examination of the role of the Maidan massacre in escalation of the conflict in Ukraine into a civil war in Donbas and subsequent Russian military interventions, is forthcoming in a special issue of a British refereed journal concerning the conflict in Ukraine.

The New Cold War

Academia.edu: Ivan Katchanovski, Interview with Telepolis magazine (Germany) Concerning New Revelations in the Maidan Massacre Investigation.

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Twower — Assassination attempt on Interior Minister Avakov by Volunteer Battalion Commander Foiled in Ukraine

Where the neo-Nazis of Ukraine see their future.

- How do you see your life, when the war is over? What would you like to do further?- I believe that we need to get rid of units such as "Berkut", "Griffin", PPS - and give these functions to our battalions. To make it like in America - a special unit SWAT, which storms, and does antiterror, and patrols. We would fully occupy these niches. There was such a statement, and I think if Arsen Borisovich [Avakov] said, that he will do it, he will. And the backbone of the new units will be our battalions.

Fort Russ
Assassination attempt on Interior Minister Avakov by Volunteer Battalion Commander Foiled in Ukraine
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Translated by Kristina Rus

Alexrpt— Before Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok was labeled neo-nazi by Western media, he was breaking bread with McCain, Nuland and Kerry during Maidan [Photos]

Finally the truth about the neo-Nazi connection begins to be reported in the Western media, sort of.

Ultra-nationalist, neo-nazi Svoboda party leader Oleh Tyahnybok is now Ukraine's newest "evil" doer, but during the Maidan he was having diner with John McCain, John Kerry, and Victoria Nuland.

Like US officials were unaware of this. If they actually were, then they should either resign or be replaced as incompetent.

So who is Svoboda. Fort Russ explains…

It is the ‘reformed’ or ‘mainstream’ political wing of the Social-Nationalist Assembly, the propaganda arm of which was ‘Radio Svoboda’. This was the Ukraine section of Radio free Europe/Radio Liberty, backed directly by the US’s National Endowment for Democracy, as well as other ‘tax deductible’ charitable contributions, notably through the Soros Foundation.

Red Pill Times
Before Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok was labeled neo-nazi by Western media, he was breaking bread with McCain, Nuland and Kerry during Maidan [Photos]
Alexrpt

Gordon M. Hahn — Ukraine’s Neo-Fascist Right Sector: Preparing a Revolt?

Meanwhile in Ukraine while all the attention has been on Greece.

One thing is now very clear to those willing to see it. The West’s encouragement of Ukrainian ultra-nationalism since the mid-2000s (indeed earlier as well) had led to blood-letting, much the way the US government, academic, journalistic, and think tank consensus regarding the ‘freedom fighter’s in Chechnya led to Boston. Remember Ms. Nuland’s and our administration’s view: There are no neofascists in Ukraine, and Maidan was filled only with women, children, and grandmothers.

Now go read your New York Times, Washington Post, PBS, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, etc. And good luck with that.

Russian and Eurasian Politics
Ukraine’s Neo-Fascist Right Sector: Preparing a Revolt?
Gordon M. Hahn | Analyst and Advisory Board Member at Geostrategic Forecasting Corporation (Chicago), Adjunct Professor, Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey (California), coordinator of Russian Archives Research Projects at the Hoover Institution, and Analyst and Consultant for Russia – Other Points of View

Gordon M. Hahn — Saving Maidan Ukraine From Itself: Mukachevo’s Implications

On Saturday, Ukraine’s neofascist Right Sector (Praviy Sektor or PS) militia movement attacked police in the western, Transcarpathian village of Mukachevo. Taking place far from the Donbass front, this was another case of the PS marauding across Ukraine’s countryside trying to raise money in order to boost its hopes of building a totalitarian, xenophobic, and exclusivist greater Ukraine; one ‘superior to Europe’ and antagonistic towards Russia. In particular, PS was involved in a settling of scores between two Transcarpatian criminal ‘authorities’ – an effort surely undertaken in order to help finance its recruiting, propaganda, political, and military efforts. In the battle that ensued – with PS using machine guns and a grenade launcher – several police and several civilians were killed and wounded, with up to 14 casualties, according to some reports. Security forces flooded in but instead of attacking and arresting the PS fighters, negotiations ensued; some of them involving directly or indirectly Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko himself and his Interior Minister, Arsen Avakov, who implemented the policy of forming volunteer battalions to include a large component of neofascists, given their ‘patriotic enthusiasm.’ The PS continues to refuse to disarm and convened demonstrations in Kiev at the presidential administration and some ten provincial capitols, and other neofascist groups and their battalions are backing PS.

Even the recently fired head of Ukraine’s intelligence service, the Security Service of Ukraine or SBU, Valentin Nalyvaichenko, backed PS against the Porosehnko-led factions of the Maidan regime (http://anons.uz.ua/news/politics/21855-valentin-nalivaychenko-podderzhal-rebyat-iz-pravogo-sektora-zakarpatya.html). For in post-Orange Revolution Ukraine, ‘patriotism,’ which often morphs into ultra-natioalism and neo-fascism, trumps everything – from criminality to rule of law to democratic procedure.

It is now clear that the Maidan regime’s policy of allowing PS and like-minded elements to enter the corridors of power, the halls of parliament, and staffs of the army and National Guard and arming tens of neofascist-dominated battalions to the teeth in order to avoid negotiating with the Donbass rebels has been proved a catastrophic failure.
Ukraine is now faced with even greater political instability than before.…

Playing with fire, or running with scissors?

And another Nuland smackdown.

I would also suggest to those focused exclusively on expanding American power, especially when it comes at Russia’s expense – to people like Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland – that they resign and repent before the ‘mothers, children, and grandmothers’ of ‘the Maidan’ – where, like in the rest of Ukraine, in her incompetent view, neo-fascists have never been.

Russian and Eurasian Politics
Saving Maidan Ukraine From Itself: Mukachevo’s Implications
Gordon M. Hahn | Analyst and Advisory Board Member at Geostrategic Forecasting Corporation (Chicago), Adjunct Professor, Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey (California), coordinator of Russian Archives Research Projects at the Hoover Institution, and Analyst and Consultant for Russia – Other Points of View

Robert Parry — The Mess that Nuland Made

As the Ukrainian army squares off against ultra-right and neo-Nazi militias in the west and violence against ethnic Russians continues in the east, the obvious folly of the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy has come into focus even for many who tried to ignore the facts, or what you might call “the mess that Victoria Nuland made.”

Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs “Toria” Nuland was the “mastermind” behind the Feb. 22, 2014 “regime change” in Ukraine, plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych while convincing the ever-gullible U.S. mainstream media that the coup wasn’t really a coup but a victory for “democracy.”…

Much of what has happened, of course, was predictable and indeed was predicted, but neocon Nuland couldn’t resist the temptation to pull off a “regime change” that she could call her own. 

Her husband (and arch-neocon) Robert Kagan had co-founded the Project for the New American Century in 1998 around a demand for “regime change” in Iraq, a project that was accomplished in 2003 with President George W. Bush’s invasion.…

In other words, the neocons have struck again, dreaming up a “regime change” scheme that ignored practical realities, such as ethnic and religious fissures. Then, as the blood flowed and the suffering worsened, the neocons just sought out someone else to blame. 

Thus, it seems unlikely that Nuland, regarded by some in Washington as the new “star” in U.S. foreign policy, will be fired for her dangerous incompetence, just as most neocons who authored the Iraq disaster remain “respected” experts employed by major think tanks, given prized space on op-ed pages, and consulted at the highest levels of the U.S. government.

Nuland is slated for a promotion in a Clinton administration, with talk of her becoming secretary of state.

Consortium News
The Mess that Nuland Made

Robert Parry

teleSUR — Ukraine-Armed Militias Declare War On Government

This is what happens when you ride the tiger.

teleSUR
Ukraine-Armed Militias Declare War On Government

RT
Show of power: Right Sector nationalists ready to send ‘19 battalions’ to Kiev

These are "our" people."

Robert Parry — Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists

In a curiously upbeat account, The New York Times reports that Islamic militants have joined with Ukraine’s far-right and neo-Nazi battalions to fight ethnic Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. It appears that no combination of violent extremists is too wretched to celebrate as long as they’re killing Russ-kies.

The article by Andrew E. Kramer reports that there are now three Islamic battalions “deployed to the hottest zones,” such as around the port city of Mariupol. One of the battalions is headed by a former Chechen warlord who goes by the name “Muslim,” Kramer wrote, adding:

“The Chechen commands the Sheikh Mansur group, named for an 18th-century Chechen resistance figure. It is subordinate to the nationalist Right Sector, a Ukrainian militia. … Right Sector … formed during last year’s street protests in Kiev from a half-dozen fringe Ukrainian nationalist groups like White Hammer and the Trident of Stepan Bandera.

“Another, the Azov group, is openly neo-Nazi, using the ‘Wolf’s Hook’ symbol associated with the [Nazi] SS. Without addressing the issue of the Nazi symbol, the Chechen said he got along well with the nationalists because, like him, they loved their homeland and hated the Russians.”

As casually as Kramer acknowledges the key front-line role of neo-Nazis and white supremacists fighting for the U.S.-backed Kiev regime, his article does mark an aberration for the Times and the rest of the mainstream U.S. news media, which usually dismiss any mention of this Nazi taint as “Russian propaganda.”

What's wrong with this picture? Everything.

Only in America. And the NYT is the "paper of record."

Another interesting tidbit:

Storm troopers from the Right Sektor and Svoboda party seized government buildings and decked them out with Nazi insignias and a Confederate battle flag, the universal symbol of white supremacy.

Consortium News
Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists

Robert Parry

Alana Goodman — ADL Poll: 85% of Greeks Believe the Jews Have Too Much Power Over Global Finance

A new poll by the Anti-Defamation League found that the majority of Greeks continue to hold anti-Semitic views about Jewish control over finance and the global economy, despite a recent drop in anti-Jewish attitudes in other parts of Europe.
Greece—which faces the prospect of economic default at midnight on Wednesday—surpasses Iran and trails just slightly behind Turkey in the percentage of its residents who hold anti-Semitic views.

In total, 67 percent of Greek respondents agreed with the majority of a list of anti-Semitic statements included in the survey. Other European countries, particularly France and Germany, have experienced a decrease in overall anti-Semitic attitudes in the wake of recent attacks on Jews.

According to the ADL poll, 90 percent of Greeks agreed with the statement that “Jews have too much power in the business world” and 85 percent agreed “Jews have too much power in international finance markets.”

In addition, 70 percent said that “Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust” and 51 percent said “Jews don’t care about what happens to anyone but their own kind.”

Over one-quarter of respondents also said they believe the number of Jews reported to have died in the Holocaust has been “greatly exaggerated.” One-third said Jews are “responsible for most of the world’s wars” and 41 percent agreed that “People hate Jews because of the way Jews behave.”

Still think that Greece isn't ripe for a rightist government?

The Washington Free Beacon
ADL Poll: 85% of Greeks Believe the Jews Have Too Much Power Over Global Finance

Alana Goodman

Nicholas Lazaredes — Ukraine crisis: Inside the Mariupol base of the controversial Azov battalion

Another Western article reports on the swastikas and Waffen SS symbols in the Azov Battalion — and then minimizes it, finally glorifying the heroic fighters for the Motherland.

The first thing you notice as you walk through the corridors of the Azov battalion's base in Mariupol are the swastikas. 

There are many — painted on doors, adorning the walls and chalked onto the blackboards of this former school, now temporary headquarters for the Azov troops.
It is a confronting sight and when I query the young soldier assigned to show me around he is quick to correct me, pointing out that the symbol is in fact a "modified swastika" — more like the letter N crossed with a straight line. 

When I point to another symbol of the Third Reich etched on the wall, that of Hitler's "SS", he simply shrugs and says: "We are nationalists, but we are not Nazis."
The Azov battalion is a highly controversial Ukrainian paramilitary group that has drawn much criticism for its links to the far right. 

The imagery it has chosen to adopt hardly helps to allay concerns, but for my young guide it is a non-issue. 

"Some journalists prefer to present us as Nazis. They look for any chance to discredit our regiment," he said.

What this means is that the neo-Nazi penetration is no longer possible to conceal, so it has be to be admitted and then explained away.

That the extent of it. The rest of the article is about the patriotic defenders of Ukraine against alleged Russian aggression.

Dancer had his last "brush with the enemy" less than a month ago on the eastern outskirts of Mariupol, near the village of Shyrokine, when his unit came under attack by rebel forces who he claims were mostly Russian. 

"I was deployed as a spotter and I saw Russian military equipment with Russian flags and Russian car tags through my binoculars," he said. 

"There were T-72 tanks, Russian armoured vehicles and Russian troops.
"They were real professionals, not volunteers. Regular volunteers can't fight like that."

For all the supposed Russian soldiers and equipment, still no pictures.

Australian Broadcasting Company
Ukraine crisis: Inside the Mariupol base of the controversial Azov battalion
Nicholas Lazaredes in Ukraine

alexrpt — Ukraine’s Ambassador on German TV, ‘Neo-nazi army is under control of Kiev’ [Video]

Kiev Ambassador to Germany: ‘Neo-Nazis are part of our forces. Without them Russia would defeated us.’ Interesting comment on German Television. 

Ukraine’s Ambassador to Germany: “These (neo-Nazi) units are fighting together with our army, with the National Guard and other units, and they are coordinated and controlled by Kiev. That’s why there exists no danger that they do something on their own, beyond they have coordinated with the army commanders”.…

“Without them (neo-Nazis) the Russian army would have advanced much further. That’s why they are part of this picture. Without these units, it would be much more difficult to defend ourselves.”

Red Pill Times
Ukraine’s Ambassador on German TV, ‘Neo-nazi army is under control of Kiev’ [Video]
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J. Hawk — Ukrainian Army's Wehrmacht-Worship

Concerning the photos: It's not just the Azov battalion or other "volunteer" units of the Right Sector that show very overt neo-Nazi sympathies. Regular UAF formations have likewise been infected by the same disease. The top one sports the symbol of the Wehrmacht's 17th Panzer Division. The word "Schuma" stenciled on the 2S1 122mm self-propelled howitzer refers to the so-called Schutzmannschaft battalions, composed of collaborators recruited by the Germans to perform a variety of tasks. Ukrainian Schutzmannschaft battalions were infamous for the war crimes they perpetrated on the civilian population of the USSR, including the Khatyn Massacre which is but one of many similar massacres, and for assisting the Einsatzkommandos in the extermination of Soviet Jews. There are many similar examples floating around the internet, even though the Western media manages not to notice them.…

…if these people get to pass themselves off as stalwart defenders of European values against Russian aggression, the neo-Nazis in Western Europe will ask the reasonable question as to why they are being punished for sporting the very same symbols?  

For Russ

Ukrainian Army's Wehrmacht-Worship
J. Hawk

Robert Parry — NYT Whites Out Ukraine’s Brown Shirts

The New York Times has been more biased on the Ukraine crisis – endlessly promoting State Department propaganda – than when it published false Iraqi WMD stories last decade. Case in point: a story from Mariupol hailing the Azov battalion without noting its neo-Nazi fighters, writes Robert Parry.

The battalion insignia of the Azov Battalion is a modified Waffen SS Wolfsangle.

Moreover, the story was apparently a plant to draw attention away from the settling of a Ukrainian Army Force by the separatists coincident with the Normandy talks. There was to battle at Mariupol. The separatists were occupied elsewhere.

Consortium News
NYT Whites Out Ukraine’s Brown Shirts

Robert Parry

Russia Insider — VIDEO: Ukrainian Nazi Torturers Brand Swastikas on Prisoners' Buttocks

You couldn't make this stuff up ... 

These Ukrainian nutcases are so out of control - where is the mainstream media on this??

This video contains testimony of a captive tortured by members of Ukrainian National Guard paramilitary in Kramatorsk area. 

We already reported aboutneo-Nazi admitting the torture in detail - squeezing nipples with pliers, putting needles under fingernails, waterboarding and so on.

Russia Insider

VIDEO: Ukrainian Nazi Torturers Brand Swastikas on Prisoners' Buttocks

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Washington's Blog
Meet Ukraine’s Master Mass-Murderer: Dmitriy Yarosh
Eric Zuesse.

Volodymyr Ishchenko — Ukraine has ignored the far right for too long – it must wake up to the danger

Volodymyr Ishchenko is a Ukrainian liberal who has finally come around to laying the cards on the table about the Right Sector in the Ukraine and the nationalist complicity with it.

…what is striking is that far-right and neo-Nazi views and connections do not seem to be problematic for either Ukrainian officials or mainstream opinion. Even the most typical line of criticism against Svoboda and the Right Sector expressed by liberal-minded people is inherently flawed. They may agree that the far right are dangerous, but they argue that the danger is that their provocative actions and statements can be exploited by Russian media to further discredit Ukraine. In this twisted logic the far right are criticised first of all for putting their partisan interests above Ukraine’s national interests. In other words, they are criticised not for being anti-democratic, reactionary, xenophobic and for propagating discriminatory ideas, but for not being nationalist enough. Even in critical discussions around the far-right appointments to high positions within law enforcement, there seem to be more worries about Ukraine’s international image than what neo-Nazis can do against political opponents and minorities and the dangerous resources they might accumulate.

Unlike Germany, the Ukraine never really faced up to its Nazi problem. Now the bill is coming due.

The Guardian
Ukraine has ignored the far right for too long – it must wake up to the danger
Volodymyr Ishchenko |  deputy director of the Center for Social and Labor Research, a member of the editorial board of Commons: Journal for Social Criticism and LeftEast web-magazine, and a lecturer at the Department of Sociology in the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

See also, Solidarity with the Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine, Why are the Ukrainian SS being allowed to march to the Cenotaph in London on Sunday?

Veterans of Hitler’s SS and their supporters are marching this Sunday, 16 November 2014, to the cenotaph in London, in commemoration, they claim, of Ukraine’s fallen ‘in all wars’. The organisers – the ‘Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain’ and the ‘Congress of Ukrainian Youth’ – include associations of veterans of the Ukrainian Nazi volunteers ‘Waffen SS Galicia’, many of whom settled in Britain after the Third Reich’s defeat in World War II. 

By commemorating the fallen of ‘all wars’, they explicitly include those who fought with Hitler’s Wehrmacht and SS in Ukraine, as well as far-right and neo-Nazi paramilitaries fighting on the side of the Kiev government in the south east of Ukraine today.

Alex Gordon of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers’ Union, an affiliate to the campaign Solidarity with the Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine, said: 

“The overwhelming majority of people in London and Britain as a whole will be appalled to hear that SS veterans and their admirers are allowed to march at the cenotaph. The Ukrainian division SS Galicia murdered Jews, Poles, Russians and anyone who got in the way of their sick plans for a racially pure Ukraine. It is a sign of how far we have travelled that these people are pushing their way back into the mainstream today. It is an insult to millions who died fighting Hitler and Nazism.”

Federico Pieraccini — Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Commander: "The US is Training and Funding Us"

Russia Insider

Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Commander: "The US is Training and Funding Us"
Federico Pieraccini | War Update

Andrew Korybko — The Galician Backhand (II)

The specter of European history. Another problem is that the US doesn't understand this dimension anymore than it understands the history of the Middle East and how history affects contemporary affairs in these regions. These people have long memories, unlike Americans whose own history is a mere blip on the screen. Americans are heavily influenced historically. Most other peoples are. Americans in generally cannot understand this and have no clue about what is really happening in these lands.

Oriental Review
The Galician Backhand (II)

Andrew Korybko | the American political correspondent of Voice of Russia who currently lives and studies in Moscow

Solidarity with the Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine

Vadim Troyan, deputy commander of the neo-nazi Azov Regiment and active member of the neo-nazi paramilitary organisation Patriot of Ukraine (the paramilitary wing of the Social-Nationalist Assembly) has been appointed by Ukraine Minister of Interior Arsen Avakov as the head of the Kiev police. 

Avakov’s adviser, Anton Gerashchenko described the appointment as “truly revolutionary” in a post on his facebook profile and added that the “idea is to appoint to senior positions of the police volunteers who came to it by their heart and soul in action!” (read neo-nazis). He added that he would be working closely with Andrey Biletsky, Azov Regiment commander and now elected member of parliament, who is also a leading member of Patriot of Ukraine and the Social-Nationalist Assembly.

“Patriot of Ukraine” neo-nazi militant appointed as Kiev head of police

One of the most notorious Ukrainian members of parliament for the far-right party ‘Svoboda,’ Yuri Michalchyshyn, quits the party so that he can become head of the propaganda and analysis of the Ukraine Security Service, SBU. Mikhalchyshyn is an open nazi apologist holding an honorary medal of the SS Division Galychna. 

The reason cited for him leaving the party, after having spent some time as part of a volunteer battalion in the “anti terrorist operation” against the Donbas, is because party membership would not be compatible with his new job in the Security Service. Mikhalchyshyn himself had suggested in July 2014 the need to establish a Ministry of Propaganda, as part of the offensive against the Donbas.

Svoboda nazi apologist quits party to become head of Security Service propaganda

RT — Ukrainian battalion leader-turned-MP ready to 'organize blasts in Russia'

Ukraine's volunteer battalion leader, who is now also an MP, said on a Ukrainian television show that the battalions are ready to "intrude" into Russia. He spoke about intended terrorist acts before being cut off by the show's host. 

"I will speak on behalf of the volunteer battalions, because I have more information...Today we are ready not just to defend [Ukraine], but to invade the Russian Federation, break into it with reconnaissance detachments and sabotage groups," the leader of the Dnepr-1 (Dnipro-1) battalion Yury Bereza said on Sunday during the 'Shuster Live' TV show.…

During a meeting with people in a Ukrainian town after the parliamentary elections, Bereza also shared his intentions of becoming the country's new defense minister.

One of "our guys" on the job. I feel safer from Putler already.

RT
Ukrainian battalion leader-turned-MP ready to 'organize blasts in Russia'

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Fort Russ
Confessions of Ukrainian commander of Dnepr-1 battalion, Yury Bereza
Kristina Rus