Frente
Brasileira de Solidariedade com a Ucrânia
Croatian nationals are
fighting in Ukraine alongside Kiev’s armed forces, Croatia’s Foreign Minister
Vesna Pusic confirmed on Wednesday.
12.02.2015, Sputnik
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150212/1018172793.html
Croats are fighting in Ukraine
but only as part of the government forces and are in no way
involved with any of the paramilitary units active in the
country’s troubled east, Croatia’s Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic told the
journalists in Zagreb on Wednesday.
"As
far as I know, there are Croatian soldiers in Ukraine who have joined
the Ukrainian army," Pusic said.
She did
not specify exactly how many of her compatriots were actually involved
in the hostilities though.
In earlier reports, Croatian media wrote
that dozens of Croats had joined the Azov volunteer battalion,
with the Croatian News Agency HINA saying that half of the
battalion’s members were indeed foreigners.
On
Monday, pro-independence fighters claimed there might be some foreign
mercenaries among the