Militias Hinder Peace in Ukraine

A rumor spread Thursday Donetsk Rebels have taken the hospital. It was not accurate. Rather a group of militants had occupied autonomously the top floor of a medical ward to ensure that a sick colleague was well attended. One patient out the door explaining that he was forced to jump out of bed. A gunman controlled the challenging scene. “I will not go near: they are violent,” a nurse scurried down the corridor.

The proliferation of paramilitary who impose their law is one of the most important effects of the Ukrainian conflict. And the trend continues. Alexander Borodai Wednesday, Prime Minister of the Republic of Donetsk, opposition political entity constituted by the central government, calling up more volunteers to defend the offensive Kiev. “We have no weapons, but that resolve,” he said.

If the dark Russian elements of the strongest units is excluded from this army is composed entirely of volunteers. Vostok’s priority was to get to Donetsk redirect the chaos of the distribution of weapons to unstable groups. “It robberies of people having passed by our army, but stop,” claimed Borodai, two days after the hijacking of an armored truck.

The situation in the West is no more reassuring. The Battalion proucranio Donbas is the media of their volunteer units. In his presentation in early May, journalists discovered in his training camp a hundred masked, some army veterans, but also banking employees or students who first played with the rifles they had seen from the military, which is mandatory.

The new president, Petro Poroshenko, announced Saturday his inauguration that advocates peace, but the battalions of volunteers continue to advertise on television. Given the shortcomings of the Ukrainian army, defense and interior ministries have encouraged recruitment in paramilitary forces. The far right in the early days boasted to nurture these units, but the source has enlisted open to a wide range of affiliations. It remains a mystery how they are funded, although its members acknowledge the help of local oligarchs. That has strengthened in the east are received as a group of murderers. Local media have reported that the tycoon Kolomoisky is pushing to change the laws that persecute pays mercenaries, while investing 10 million euros a month on them, according to Forbes.

Initially volunteers  in Donetsk and Lugansk attributed roadblocks, but their involvement in fighting increases. Two weeks ago an initiative Battalion Donbas finished with seven dead. It is still unclear who opened fire, but the incident reveals the hazards of guerrilla war.

Volunteers are formally under the command of a regular army. In Dnepropetrovsk, the commander of Fifth Battalion squadron Dnieper Vladimir Shilov, does not dispel the doubts about this system.  “I extend inexperienced volunteers: it makes things more difficult than the police,” concedes. About the organization deficits not beat around the bush: “We need a commander in chief more professional. When I fought in Afghanistan, the battalions did have a coordinator contact center.”  “There is some confusion because of the plant, not because of problems between battalions and army.”

Yuri Bereza, Battalion Commander Dnepr, stressed that unity is the most important of the four volunteers. ” And we get along with the army, because the enemy is Russia.” Still, saves says ” a very sad impression ” of the official who has known “With Yanukovych gals were bought. To these people the money moves. We have never had a real army, ” abounds ” Our battalions now yes they are. We hope to be the new police and army. ” When he raises the danger that the government loses control of armed men under many different commanders, is excited about the lack of vision of Europeans. Ukrainian defense responds that is professional, and virile. Plant on the table with a map of Russia marks in the cities in which ensures that they have spies. ” Ukrainians are not fools,” he continues, now throwing a book of Cicero: ” I’m reading this.”

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