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Sunday, June 1, 2014

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Ukraine News One: Vostok Battalion taking control of anti-Ukraine Donbas insurgency

June 1, 2014, 5:58 p.m. | Video — by Ukraine News One

Pro-Russian fighters of Vostok (East) battalion rip apart an Ukrainian flag outside a regional state building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on May 29, 2014. Armed militiamen of the Pro-Russian Vostok batallion surrounded the regional state building in Donetsk before entering, demanding that the activists of the so-called People's Republic of Donetsk leave the premises and detaining several of them. Pro-Russian rebels downed a Ukrainian helicopter on May 29, killing 12 soldiers including a general and undermining president-elect Petro Poroshenko's fervent vow to crush the bloody seven-week insurgency roiling the industrial east.
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 A new force has rolled into Ukraine's eastern regions, and it has Ukrainians and pro-Russian separatists worried. The Vostok Battalion from Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Chechnya arrived on May 25 to the cheers of hundreds of locals in Donetsk while firing their bullets into the air and openly admitting their identity.
If the Vostok Battalion is still answering to the Kremlin, then these Chechen fighters in Ukraine could be on a mission to take the industrialised east, known as the Donbas, under their control after infighting between pro-Russian separatists threatened to destabilize the separatist movement.
A new force has rolled into Ukraine's eastern regions, and it has Ukrainians and pro-Russian separatists worried. The Vostok Battalion from Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Chechnya arrived on May 25 to the cheers of hundreds of locals in Donetsk while firing their bullets into the air and openly admitting their identity.
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