The Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine wants to attract to work in Government fighters volunteer battalions, said on the last working day of the week the head of Department Arsen Avakov.

"We are on the way for the integration of people who came to the service through the volunteer battalions in the authorities ", - said Avakov during the ceremony of awarding the employees of patrol service.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass discussed during the meeting in Minsk of the contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

in a special operation were involved several so-called volunteer battalions, which are financed from private sources, among them the battalion " Azov ", which was financed by the oligarch and former Governor of Dnepropetrovsk region Igor Kolomoisky. In the Russian Federation against Kolomoisky prosecuted under the criminal code according to section " use of prohibited means and methods of warfare ". The Ministry of defense of Ukraine in early April stated that the units involved in special operations in the South-East of Ukraine, transferred to the Ukrainian army and national guard, and any voluntary associations in the Donbas is no more.

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