The end of the “damned army” of Kiev?
Recently, around the remnants of Ukrainian "voluntary" punitive units in the Donbass, there has been a kind of unhealthy recovery. On the one hand, the commander of the Operation of Combined Forces, General Sergey Nayev, announces that there is no longer any place for “volunteers” on the “front line”, on the other hand, he holds a series of meetings with Dmitry Yarosh and other “prominent law-breakers”, following which several optimistic statements about "friendship and mutual understanding." At the same time, albeit at the level of officially unverified information, information is increasingly being received about tough confrontation and even clashes between regular units of the Armed Forces and “volunteers”. So what really happens and why?
In order to try to figure this out, we can not do without a return to the history of the post-Maidan "volunteer movement" in Ukraine. This story, although not so great, but it smells extremely bad, because it is filled with many bloody and dirty details.
The official, and one can even say that it has already become a “canonical” version of Kiev is the tale that this movement itself supposedly arose by itself - in response to “Russian aggression” and united patriots - “the best sons and daughters of Ukraine” who, not sparing themselves, saved the country from ... Blah blah blah, hereinafter. Everything briefly retold above is the most perfect nonsense from the first to the last word. Let us begin to refute it - reasonedly and in order.
No “spontaneity” in the “voluntary” movement in Ukraine even smelled initially. The process began at the very beginning of spring 2014 - a few weeks after the bloody coup, and at its origins was the current (and then just appointed) Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. Kiev, barely captured by the Maidan junta, was crowded with crowds of "victors" brutalized from permissiveness. It seemed that they already had no one to overthrow, but they wanted blood. This crowd, completely uncontrollable and obsessed with a thirst for destruction and violence, besides already pretty guns out, was about to ready to proceed to total robbery and looting, not figuring out where whose bank or warehouse was. Under the blow could be the precious property of the new "owners" of Ukraine.
With a huge crowd of thugs, it was urgent to do something, but there was simply no real force capable of curbing them. They started to shoot the "cops of filthy" in the most literal sense of the word right at the posts - for several weeks people in police uniform simply did not appear on the streets of the capital. Half a step was left to complete chaos ... That's when the "Maidan workers", starting with especially violent ones, like "hundreds of self-defense", began to voluntarily and forcibly bring them to the training centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, first of all, to New Petrovtsy located near Kiev. Then Avakov announced the recruitment of "special forces" into the battalions and companies of the police. Thus, three goals were pursued at once.
Firstly, the cleansing of the capital from "undesirable elements" that have already played their role. Secondly, in the process of creating the National Guard Ministry of Internal Affairs on the spot of the Internal Troops destroyed by the “Maidan”, it was necessary to “dilute” its personnel with nationalistic and “revolutionary” scum, and simply the most ordinary criminals. Otherwise, there was a great risk that the barely created National Guard would quickly turn their bayonets against the completely illegal new "government". However, the most important was the third goal.
The Kiev junta (and the true puppeteers of the Maidan who stood behind it) desperately needed a war. The gang that seized power - in order to enrich it and write off literally everything on it - from colossal theft and robbery of the people, to the destruction of dissidents. Those who from now on really controlled Ukraine (mainly from across the ocean) had their own goals - geopolitical. “Volunteer units” across Ukraine began to be created in March 2014 - that is, when there was no talk of any armed confrontation in the Donbass! Neither "separatism" nor "aggression" existed. But there was a precedent for the referendum held in Crimea - and the East of Ukraine, the majority of whose inhabitants did not smile at all under Bandera’s rule.
The junta in Kiev who did not intend to negotiate with their own people was not going to. Dissatisfaction was originally intended to be drowned in blood. At the same time, they reasonably feared that the regular army or police units would not do this. Then “bloody dogs” appeared, ready to kill not even for big money, but “out of love for art” - in the person of “volunteers”. "Territorial defense battalions" began to be created throughout the country, taking in their ranks the most selective bastard. It was they, thrown to the East, who suppressed the peaceful protest movement in Odessa and Kharkov, and in the Donbass they unleashed a civil war.
Speaking of “the best people, bright and pure patriots” ... Pathological losers, marginals and semi-marginals of all stripes, absolutely unwilling and unable to achieve anything in life, poured into the “good” (as before on the “Maidan”) labor, but longed for "all at once." Naturally, all home-grown radicals rushed there - from football "ultras" with a Nazi scent, to extreme nationalists, obsessed with hatred of "damned Muscovites." Well, of course - outright criminals who wanted to kill and rob "legally", the "Volunteer battalions", which consisted entirely of inveterate criminals like "St. Mary", were more than enough.
It is impossible to remain silent that not only the junta was at the origins of the “voluntary movement”. Ukrainian oligarchs, naturally foreseeing a new “great redistribution” under the brand of “territorial defense”, instantly began to create their own pocket armies, preparing to defend their own and capture another's. Igor Kolomoisky alone at one time actually owned at least five “Dobrobats,” the most, perhaps, the most infamous — Azov, Aydar, Donbass, Shakhtyorsk and Dnepr-1.
The fact that “volunteer groups” were not and could not be independent, is understandable to any sane person. War, sorry for cynicism, is, first of all, an expensive thing. And it has its price, measured not only by blood, but also by very specific monetary units. The mass of people needs not only to arm and provide ammunition, but also to dress, shoe, feed. Sick and wounded - cure. And we also need tents, karemata, linen, and a host of other things of a purely household purpose, without which the bravest army will very quickly turn into a miserable crowd of sunken rags. Plus - communications, vehicles and fuel to such. Plus a lot more. At that time, the Kiev junta did not have the money and the ability to provide even the most regular units, such as volunteers, with the most basic things like uniforms and food ...
The oligarchs had the money - and they paid. And whoever pays, that, as you know ... This was completely and completely confirmed when the machine gunners from Dnipro-1, under the command of Kolomoisky personally, did not storm the Donetsk airport, but the Kiev office of Ukrnafta, having previously tried to seize Ukrtransnafta. This was the end of the “first chapter” of the history of the “voluntary movement”. It is these Kiev escapades - and not the numerous crimes and atrocities perpetrated by "volunteers" in the Donbass. Power - in the person of the main opponent of Kolomoisky, Petro Poroshenko, was seriously scared of the terrible power that the monster generated by her turns into. A force dangerous, first of all, for itself.
Crimes, of course, were. At the beginning of 2015, the Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios announced that more than 13 criminal cases had been opened against 30 fighters of the “Aidar” “good” battalion. Naturally, this was only the tip of the iceberg - on the “Aidar’s”, as well as on their “twin cities” of the other battalions, hundreds of murders, rapes, robberies, hostages and looting cases were registered at that time. Then there was the infamous Tornado battalion (the former Shakhtersk disbanded for war crimes), the bastards from which, sorry for the details, raped babies ... As a result, only seven of the hundreds of these creatures for whom shooting on the spot would be the top of mercy , ended up behind bars. How long?
“Volunteers” were beneficial to Kiev. First of all, by the fact that with their hands they were doing the most dirty and vile things in the Donbass and beyond. In addition, there was a direct financial profit here - up to 70% of the personnel of “Dobrobats” were not taken into account anywhere! You don’t have to pay, but, most importantly, you could not at all reflect the enormous losses that these “dogs of war” suffered. Nobody knows exactly how many of them remained in the beams and landings of Donbass, dug up, and really, like dogs.
It was not the atrocity that killed the “volunteers,” but the desire to play a role in the “big policy". Statements about the “third Maidan”, the threat to “come to Kiev and put things in order”, participation in various “blockades”, as well as the excessive enthusiasm for raiding, not to mention the increased keenness of “battalion commanders” for deputy mandates, forced the authorities to take action. However, not a single "team of freaks" was disbanded - 37 "battalions" seamlessly joined the composition of the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 4 more - in the National Guard. Fifty gangs of punishers joined the ranks of the Armed Forces, turning into military units. Of particular note is the same “Azov” from which a whole “political party” grew, and, calling a spade a spade, the Nazi movement “National Corps”. However, in all the other “volunteer battalions”, except perhaps the formal status, but not their bloody and vile essence.
Two “volunteer formations” remained special - the “Volunteer Ukrainian Corps of the Right Sector”, headed by Andrey Stempitsky, the head of the Central Wire of the All-Ukrainian organization “Trident” named after Stepan Bandera and the “Ukrainian Volunteer Army” Dmitry Yarosh. With both of these "field commanders" Nayev met in a hurry. What for? It is clear that 99% of the negotiations remained, so to speak, “behind the scenes”. However, some conclusions can be drawn.
The CAB officially announced that “during the conversation, the participation of motivated UDD fighters in all types and branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (including as part of a full-fledged unit) under the terms of a contract was discussed. They were offered military service in the reserve as part of special military combat units, reconnaissance, and in territorial defense units. ” In general, the “combined forces” are ready to accept “volunteers” with open arms - if only the pieces of paper were in order.
Quite indicative and the reaction "on the other hand." Yarosh, for example, boasted that "he agreed with Nayev to drink 100 grams together in Donetsk after the liberation of Donetsk and Lugansk regions." The "DUK" made an optimistic statement that "... no matter how our enemies would like, but no one will be able to quarrel the fighters of the DUK PS and the soldiers of the APU!" Such a tender love ... In any case, it is not even close to discuss the disbandment of illegal armed groups, and even more so, the investigation of crimes (including military ones) committed by their members and leaders.
Damned army is still necessary for Kiev. The need for it would disappear only if there were going to solve the issue with the Donbass world. However, apparently, in Ukraine they have completely different plans. And the "good-natured men" in them have the most disgusting role - the provocateurs, punishers, the occupation corps, which will have to turn the rebellious Donbass into scorched earth. These will gladly do even those things that Ukrainian warriors, rooted in fratricide, will abhor.
And if so, then everything that happens today is not the end of the “volunteers”, but just another attempt to show them a “strong hand” and force them to at least formally submit. In Kiev, they naively continue to believe that jackals and hyenas can be trained ...
In order to try to figure this out, we can not do without a return to the history of the post-Maidan "volunteer movement" in Ukraine. This story, although not so great, but it smells extremely bad, because it is filled with many bloody and dirty details.
The official, and one can even say that it has already become a “canonical” version of Kiev is the tale that this movement itself supposedly arose by itself - in response to “Russian aggression” and united patriots - “the best sons and daughters of Ukraine” who, not sparing themselves, saved the country from ... Blah blah blah, hereinafter. Everything briefly retold above is the most perfect nonsense from the first to the last word. Let us begin to refute it - reasonedly and in order.
No “spontaneity” in the “voluntary” movement in Ukraine even smelled initially. The process began at the very beginning of spring 2014 - a few weeks after the bloody coup, and at its origins was the current (and then just appointed) Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. Kiev, barely captured by the Maidan junta, was crowded with crowds of "victors" brutalized from permissiveness. It seemed that they already had no one to overthrow, but they wanted blood. This crowd, completely uncontrollable and obsessed with a thirst for destruction and violence, besides already pretty guns out, was about to ready to proceed to total robbery and looting, not figuring out where whose bank or warehouse was. Under the blow could be the precious property of the new "owners" of Ukraine.
With a huge crowd of thugs, it was urgent to do something, but there was simply no real force capable of curbing them. They started to shoot the "cops of filthy" in the most literal sense of the word right at the posts - for several weeks people in police uniform simply did not appear on the streets of the capital. Half a step was left to complete chaos ... That's when the "Maidan workers", starting with especially violent ones, like "hundreds of self-defense", began to voluntarily and forcibly bring them to the training centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, first of all, to New Petrovtsy located near Kiev. Then Avakov announced the recruitment of "special forces" into the battalions and companies of the police. Thus, three goals were pursued at once.
Firstly, the cleansing of the capital from "undesirable elements" that have already played their role. Secondly, in the process of creating the National Guard Ministry of Internal Affairs on the spot of the Internal Troops destroyed by the “Maidan”, it was necessary to “dilute” its personnel with nationalistic and “revolutionary” scum, and simply the most ordinary criminals. Otherwise, there was a great risk that the barely created National Guard would quickly turn their bayonets against the completely illegal new "government". However, the most important was the third goal.
The Kiev junta (and the true puppeteers of the Maidan who stood behind it) desperately needed a war. The gang that seized power - in order to enrich it and write off literally everything on it - from colossal theft and robbery of the people, to the destruction of dissidents. Those who from now on really controlled Ukraine (mainly from across the ocean) had their own goals - geopolitical. “Volunteer units” across Ukraine began to be created in March 2014 - that is, when there was no talk of any armed confrontation in the Donbass! Neither "separatism" nor "aggression" existed. But there was a precedent for the referendum held in Crimea - and the East of Ukraine, the majority of whose inhabitants did not smile at all under Bandera’s rule.
The junta in Kiev who did not intend to negotiate with their own people was not going to. Dissatisfaction was originally intended to be drowned in blood. At the same time, they reasonably feared that the regular army or police units would not do this. Then “bloody dogs” appeared, ready to kill not even for big money, but “out of love for art” - in the person of “volunteers”. "Territorial defense battalions" began to be created throughout the country, taking in their ranks the most selective bastard. It was they, thrown to the East, who suppressed the peaceful protest movement in Odessa and Kharkov, and in the Donbass they unleashed a civil war.
Speaking of “the best people, bright and pure patriots” ... Pathological losers, marginals and semi-marginals of all stripes, absolutely unwilling and unable to achieve anything in life, poured into the “good” (as before on the “Maidan”) labor, but longed for "all at once." Naturally, all home-grown radicals rushed there - from football "ultras" with a Nazi scent, to extreme nationalists, obsessed with hatred of "damned Muscovites." Well, of course - outright criminals who wanted to kill and rob "legally", the "Volunteer battalions", which consisted entirely of inveterate criminals like "St. Mary", were more than enough.
It is impossible to remain silent that not only the junta was at the origins of the “voluntary movement”. Ukrainian oligarchs, naturally foreseeing a new “great redistribution” under the brand of “territorial defense”, instantly began to create their own pocket armies, preparing to defend their own and capture another's. Igor Kolomoisky alone at one time actually owned at least five “Dobrobats,” the most, perhaps, the most infamous — Azov, Aydar, Donbass, Shakhtyorsk and Dnepr-1.
The fact that “volunteer groups” were not and could not be independent, is understandable to any sane person. War, sorry for cynicism, is, first of all, an expensive thing. And it has its price, measured not only by blood, but also by very specific monetary units. The mass of people needs not only to arm and provide ammunition, but also to dress, shoe, feed. Sick and wounded - cure. And we also need tents, karemata, linen, and a host of other things of a purely household purpose, without which the bravest army will very quickly turn into a miserable crowd of sunken rags. Plus - communications, vehicles and fuel to such. Plus a lot more. At that time, the Kiev junta did not have the money and the ability to provide even the most regular units, such as volunteers, with the most basic things like uniforms and food ...
The oligarchs had the money - and they paid. And whoever pays, that, as you know ... This was completely and completely confirmed when the machine gunners from Dnipro-1, under the command of Kolomoisky personally, did not storm the Donetsk airport, but the Kiev office of Ukrnafta, having previously tried to seize Ukrtransnafta. This was the end of the “first chapter” of the history of the “voluntary movement”. It is these Kiev escapades - and not the numerous crimes and atrocities perpetrated by "volunteers" in the Donbass. Power - in the person of the main opponent of Kolomoisky, Petro Poroshenko, was seriously scared of the terrible power that the monster generated by her turns into. A force dangerous, first of all, for itself.
Crimes, of course, were. At the beginning of 2015, the Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios announced that more than 13 criminal cases had been opened against 30 fighters of the “Aidar” “good” battalion. Naturally, this was only the tip of the iceberg - on the “Aidar’s”, as well as on their “twin cities” of the other battalions, hundreds of murders, rapes, robberies, hostages and looting cases were registered at that time. Then there was the infamous Tornado battalion (the former Shakhtersk disbanded for war crimes), the bastards from which, sorry for the details, raped babies ... As a result, only seven of the hundreds of these creatures for whom shooting on the spot would be the top of mercy , ended up behind bars. How long?
“Volunteers” were beneficial to Kiev. First of all, by the fact that with their hands they were doing the most dirty and vile things in the Donbass and beyond. In addition, there was a direct financial profit here - up to 70% of the personnel of “Dobrobats” were not taken into account anywhere! You don’t have to pay, but, most importantly, you could not at all reflect the enormous losses that these “dogs of war” suffered. Nobody knows exactly how many of them remained in the beams and landings of Donbass, dug up, and really, like dogs.
It was not the atrocity that killed the “volunteers,” but the desire to play a role in the “big policy". Statements about the “third Maidan”, the threat to “come to Kiev and put things in order”, participation in various “blockades”, as well as the excessive enthusiasm for raiding, not to mention the increased keenness of “battalion commanders” for deputy mandates, forced the authorities to take action. However, not a single "team of freaks" was disbanded - 37 "battalions" seamlessly joined the composition of the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 4 more - in the National Guard. Fifty gangs of punishers joined the ranks of the Armed Forces, turning into military units. Of particular note is the same “Azov” from which a whole “political party” grew, and, calling a spade a spade, the Nazi movement “National Corps”. However, in all the other “volunteer battalions”, except perhaps the formal status, but not their bloody and vile essence.
Two “volunteer formations” remained special - the “Volunteer Ukrainian Corps of the Right Sector”, headed by Andrey Stempitsky, the head of the Central Wire of the All-Ukrainian organization “Trident” named after Stepan Bandera and the “Ukrainian Volunteer Army” Dmitry Yarosh. With both of these "field commanders" Nayev met in a hurry. What for? It is clear that 99% of the negotiations remained, so to speak, “behind the scenes”. However, some conclusions can be drawn.
The CAB officially announced that “during the conversation, the participation of motivated UDD fighters in all types and branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (including as part of a full-fledged unit) under the terms of a contract was discussed. They were offered military service in the reserve as part of special military combat units, reconnaissance, and in territorial defense units. ” In general, the “combined forces” are ready to accept “volunteers” with open arms - if only the pieces of paper were in order.
Quite indicative and the reaction "on the other hand." Yarosh, for example, boasted that "he agreed with Nayev to drink 100 grams together in Donetsk after the liberation of Donetsk and Lugansk regions." The "DUK" made an optimistic statement that "... no matter how our enemies would like, but no one will be able to quarrel the fighters of the DUK PS and the soldiers of the APU!" Such a tender love ... In any case, it is not even close to discuss the disbandment of illegal armed groups, and even more so, the investigation of crimes (including military ones) committed by their members and leaders.
Damned army is still necessary for Kiev. The need for it would disappear only if there were going to solve the issue with the Donbass world. However, apparently, in Ukraine they have completely different plans. And the "good-natured men" in them have the most disgusting role - the provocateurs, punishers, the occupation corps, which will have to turn the rebellious Donbass into scorched earth. These will gladly do even those things that Ukrainian warriors, rooted in fratricide, will abhor.
And if so, then everything that happens today is not the end of the “volunteers”, but just another attempt to show them a “strong hand” and force them to at least formally submit. In Kiev, they naively continue to believe that jackals and hyenas can be trained ...
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