Ukrainian troops are not engaged in the Donbass fighting with the so-called volunteer battalions, because All battalions entered the armed forces or the national guard, told on Thursday in the Ukrainian Ministry of defence.
"data about the fighting between the military personnel of military power of Ukraine and the voluntary associations is not true. All Ukrainian military units are translated into the ranks of the military power of Ukraine or the regular units of the National guard. No Ukrainian volunteer or other armed groups in the area of the fighting and conditional on line no collision "- quoted by RIA "Novosti" letter of Agency.
Again, formally, the "battalions" in the past year have been attributed To the Ukrainian defense Ministry or interior Ministry, However, experts noted, because it is a submission only nominally, in fact the same build loosely controlled by Kiev. On Wednesday, Deputy commander of the corps of the Ministry of defence DND Eduard Baturin said that the Ministry of defense of the Donetsk national Republic records skirmishes between units of the APU and the so-called volunteer battalions." Our units continue to fix clashes between units of the armed forces and the national guard. Once this fact was highlighted yesterday in the area of residential settlements Sands. There's even a battalion of the OUN was fired on the military personnel of VSU, which, for its part, shifted all the blame for the attacks on soldiers DND ", - he said. In the spring of last year in the Ukrainian society began a rapid Patriotic enthusiasm, Maidan activists by the thousands began to enroll in the national guard and various kinds of " battalions ". War torn not only by Ukrainian nationalists and supporters of Ukrainian separatism, but also ideological Nazis from different countries. The beginning of the war were formed several dozen armed groups whose members were handing out weapons and identity. Certain issued as a battalion of the interior Ministry and others as the battalions of the territorial defence, reporting to the war Department. However, despite the fact that the chief of all the battalions of the interior Ministry seems to be considered Avakov, in reality it is not so simple. The commander of the battalion "Shakhtersk" Ruslan Balmas told that the creation of this establishment, it was agreed in Dnepropetrovsk Deputy Kolomoisky Korban. This process took about 10-20 minutes. The international media and the organization many times has noted that some members of these battalions openly shows Nazi symbols and also reported numerous cases of war crimes against these groups. Human rights organization Àmnesty international in late summer, presented a report, which recorded listing of lawlessness members of these groups, urged the Kiev authorities to hold a trial and punish the guilty.

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