Ukraine is the formation of a new volunteer tank battalion, wrote Advisor to the President of Ukraine Yuri Biryukov on his page century.

"Or did you think that we have volunteers only Donbass-Azov-DUK? As the same. We still and formed volunteer tank battalion. The name didn't invent it, " Biryukov said.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against disgruntled happened last February by the coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict were more than 5, 6 thousands of civilians.

Just a special operation involved about a half-dozen battalions, which are financed from private sources. So, battalions " Azov ", " Aidar ", " Donbass ", "Dnepr-1" and "Dnepr-2" financed by the oligarch and the Governor Igor Kolomoisky, against whom in Russia prosecuted under the criminal code in accordance with paragraph " use of prohibited means and methods of warfare ". It also many times been accused of sponsoring extremist groups " the Right sector, whose activities are prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation.

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