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Task force Rusich, recruited from far rightists in Moscow and St Petersburg, has been deployed in Ukraine.
Rusich was founded in 2014 by Alexei Milchakov, a neo-Nazi, and Yan Petrovsky, a self-styled Russian nationalist and patriot. The unit operated in the “People’s Republics” of Donbas, where it gained a reputation for brutality.
Putin’s government had previously wavered between co-opting and cracking down on the far right, which it saw as a potentially dangerous rival for power. But when conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine in 2014, the Kremlin had no qualms about allowing neo-Nazis to raise combat units.
Rusich has been investigated for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, and Michalkov and Petrovsky have both been charged with terrorism in Ukraine.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-n...-send-notorious-neo-nazi-mercenaries-ukraine/
Rusich was founded in 2014 by Alexei Milchakov, a neo-Nazi, and Yan Petrovsky, a self-styled Russian nationalist and patriot. The unit operated in the “People’s Republics” of Donbas, where it gained a reputation for brutality.
Putin’s government had previously wavered between co-opting and cracking down on the far right, which it saw as a potentially dangerous rival for power. But when conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine in 2014, the Kremlin had no qualms about allowing neo-Nazis to raise combat units.
Rusich has been investigated for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, and Michalkov and Petrovsky have both been charged with terrorism in Ukraine.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-n...-send-notorious-neo-nazi-mercenaries-ukraine/