Greek
neo-nazis joining Ukrainian paramilitary forces
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Neo-nazis
from Greece, Italy and Scandinavia are among the paramilitary
neo-nazi groups joining Kiev's military forces against separatists in
East Ukraine. The presence of the Greek neo-nazis was revealed on
Telegraph by the head of one of the most powerful paramilitary
groups, the Azov Battalion.
Through
their extremist profiles on social media, neo-nazis in Ukraine
managed to attract foreign fighters. According to the leader of the
Azov Battalion, Andriy Biletsky, there are men from Ireland, Italy,
Greece and Scandinavia under his command. In their base, a former
sniper from the Swedish army, National Guard and current member of
the Swedish far-Right, Michael Skilt, leads and trains one of the
teams.
As he
claimed on Telegraph, "the fighter woke-up inside him"
after the clashes in Kiev. He receives around 130 euros per month for
his "services" in Ukraine. After the end of his mission, he
plans to go to Syria and fight for Bashar al-Assad. He states that,
as a mercenary earns quite a lot of money.
Meanwhile,
according to the Athens Courier newspaper, there are also Greeks
among the representatives of various nationalities in the ranks of
the Russian separatists. There is a large community of Greeks in the
east of Ukraine, who have suffered as much as other residents of the
region and many of them fled for Russia's Rostov and Kuban regions.
“Pontic
Greeks, who live in Greece, should be concerned with the fate of the
Greeks living in Mariupol, which is trapped under the shelling [and
other firing] of the Kiev-Lviv punishers,” according to the
newspaper.
It is also
noted that apart from Greeks, two battalions of Serbs and even 25 US
citizens are fighting for “traditional human values” alongside
militia in southeast Ukraine. According to earlier reports, within
the Vostok Battalion, there are
volunteers from Spain, Italy, France, Canada, Russia and Poland.
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