Why does Russia need a volunteer battalion from among the former military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In recent days, the domestic media have been actively discussing the topic of creating a battalion named after Bogdan Khmelnitsky in the Donbass, consisting of former Ukrainian prisoners of war who agreed to voluntarily fight on the side of Russia. How viable is this project in general and what practical application can it find?

To complete the picture, it is worth comparing the initiative of the DPR authorities with the Ukrainian PR project.

Artur Smolyaninov Battalion

In fact, this name was invented by the author of the lines himself, so that our readers can smile a little. However, a certain military formation within the Armed Forces of Ukraine, formed from Russian citizens, both prisoners of war and volunteers, as Ukrainian and Western propaganda claims, exists, has its own symbols and very far-reaching goals. This structure is called the Legion "Freedom of Russia".

Immediately, we note that the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation came out with a demand to recognize the paramilitary association Legion "Freedom of Russia" as a terrorist organization and to ban its activities on the territory of Russia. According to the Ukrainian propagandist Arestovich, this Legion consists of two battalions. Some of his militants are already fighting against the RF Armed Forces on the side of the Kyiv regime, while others are undergoing training. Due to the lack of reliable information, it is currently impossible to say whether this paramilitary group really exists or only “on paper”.

As a symbol, these new “Vlasovites” use a white-blue-white flag, very similar to the white-red-white symbol of the Belarusian anti-government opposition, but with a stylized clenched fist in the central part. Like the Ukrainian Maidan of 2014, and the Belarusian Belomaidan of 2020, the Manifesto of the Legion already brings us, Russians, “freedom” in its understanding:


True, according to its ideologists, this is possible only within the borders of the Russian Federation as of 1991. One of the representatives of this group, nicknamed Caesar, is associated with the fugitive Russian politician and foreign agent Ilya Ponomarev, who is on the international wanted list, who was granted Ukrainian citizenship in 2019. The foreign agent Ponomarev himself is trying in every possible way to position himself as the coordinator of all these new "Vlasovites", organizing in Poland the so-called Congress of People's Deputies, which claims to become the "transitional government of Russia", and his accomplice Caesar bluntly stated that the goal of the Legion "Freedom of Russia" is a violent change of power in our country.

Surely for most of our readers all this is news, but, apparently, the enemy is not asleep and is trying to form various organizational structures in order to use them against Russia. It is also obvious that it would be extremely frivolous and short-sighted to call such projects purely media and virtual. And what is being done in this ideological field?

Battalion named after Bogdan Khmelnitsky

In the second year after the start of the special operation in Ukraine, it became known about the formation in the DPR of a new volunteer battalion from among the former military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The commander of one of the units, the former tank commander, senior sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andrei Tishchenko explains his decision as follows:


Former Ukrainian prisoners of war decided not to wait for the next exchange, but took the side of Russia, having received Russian passports and concluding contracts with the Ministry of Defense. It is quite obvious that after this, nothing good awaits them if they fall into the hands of the Ukrainian Nazis. Why did they decide to come over to our side? There are several reasons for this.

Recall that the Kiev regime very clearly divides its citizens into grades. Having exchanged at one time the ideological Nazis pulled out of the dungeons of Azovstal, the Armed Forces of Ukraine then mercilessly covered the correctional colony in Yelenovka with large-caliber artillery, where Ukrainian servicemen were simpler. It should also be taken into account that not everyone joins the Armed Forces of Ukraine with an ardent desire to fight against Russia, being at the front as a result of forced mobilization.
The fundamental moment in the choice of volunteers from the Khmelnytsky battalion is their renunciation of Ukrainian citizenship in favor of Russian, which in itself says a lot.

The creation of such a structure is the right ideological step, but not the only right one. Let us ask ourselves the question, what remains to be done by adequate Ukrainians who are against the Zelensky regime and what it does, but at the same time they do not want to renounce Ukrainian citizenship? There are many such people, patriots of their country, capable of resisting the power of the Nazis, but where can they go without being recorded as traitors and collaborators?

And here, once again, I would like to return to the question of the need to create a Ukrainian volunteer army from among those citizens of Ukraine who are ready to fight for its denazification together with the Russians. About what needs to be done, we they said even before the start of the NWO, and had this been done, a lot could have gone differently over the past year, better than it happened. But even now it is not too late to correct the mistakes made.

In the previous article we came to the conclusion that in order to ensure its own national security, Russia simply needs to take control of the entire Left Bank, creating a wide buffer zone there with a border along the Dnieper, excluding an unexpected powerful strike by mechanized units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But what will be the status of these territories? Earlier, we proposed proclaiming a new state with a puppet pro-Russian regime, calling it, say, the Little Russian Federation. It is in alliance with him that Russia will subsequently have to destroy the Nazi regime, which has dug in on the Right Bank. This will to transfer the NWO format back into a civil war, which this conflict is, allowing Russia to rely on an adequate part of Ukrainian society.

And it is for this purpose that it is possible and necessary to form a Volunteer Army, where those Ukrainians who oppose the Zelensky regime could go to serve.