L’estremista di destra Pavel Gubarev, ex capo della cosiddetta Repubblica popolare di Donetsk e fondatore della Milizia popolare del Donbas, ammette che otto battaglioni russi sono entrati nel Donbas nel 2014. Uno di loro era comandato dal neonazista Dmitry Utkin, comandante della Wagner.

What a surprise… I have friends that were in Donetsk in 2014 and saw those invaders with their own eyes. Chechens, Buryats and other « people » who never saw a paved road or a plumbed bathroom before, before Russian rockets struck their homes.
Russian hooligans and other local bandits took power stole everything they could and turned it into what seems to be North Korea. So much for a liberation.

Yet some people in the west repeat the fantasy of a popular uprising against mean Ukrainian oppressors. Makes me lose faith in humanity.