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Ukraine says it created a whole battalion from Russians who signed up to fight their own country
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“We can confirm the information about the creation of the Siberian Battalion, which operates in the ranks of the International Legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” Andriy Yusov, a spokesperson for the Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) said, according to the Kyiv Post.
Yusov was referring to an article published by Bloomberg earlier this week that said that the soldiers, who are largely from ethnic groups in Russia, had traveled via third countries to join the battalion in Ukraine.
“Ukraine will continue to expand the number of such units, which consist of the peoples of the Russian Federation and express a desire to defend Ukraine on the one hand, and on the other hand, to protect their peoples and small homelands from Russian imperial oppression,” Yusov added.
He said that fighters in the Siberian Battalion have received a call sign to protect their identity and that they have been thoroughly vetted and tested.
The soldiers are expected to be sent to the front lines soon, Bloomberg reported, citing officials at their training camp.
Vladislav Ammosov, who served in the GRU — the military intelligence wing of Russia’s army — for 15 years before moving to Europe, told Radio Free Europe that he is “ready to deploy immediately into Russian territory as a part of a sabotage and reconnaissance group and destroy enemies who support Putin’s authorities,” per a translation by The New Voice of Ukraine.
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