11.08.2015, Strategic Culture
Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia), Фонд
стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)
Shaun Walker, a British journalist, visited
Ukraine in July to highlight the situation in the east of the country. He
shared his impression in his article published by The
Guardian.
Actually, Walker did not say anything new
about Muslim battalions fighting alongside the forces of Ukraine’s regime; he
just confirmed again the fact that there is a close link between Ukrainian
nationalists and Islamists united in the fight against their common enemy –
Russia. The DzhokharDudayev and Sheikh Mansour battalions came to Ukraine last
spring. The units are manned by foreign citizens mainly coming from the
member-states of the European Union.
According to the Ukraine’s laws still in
force, the «Muslim battalions» are illegal armed formations. Their fighters are
felons «who act in collusion as a criminal group to commit two or more
premeditated murders».
After lawlessness prevailed over the rule of
law in Ukraine (that’s what was the main reason to make people rise against the
regime in Donbass, the eastern part of Ukraine, where armed groups going on a
rampage has become a daily routine. It is not perceived as something unusual
anymore. The gang of armed Islamists is formally called the Dzhokhar Dudayev
International Peacekeeping Battalion.
Denmark was the first country where the
formation of «Muslim Battalion» was announced. It was stationed on the
territory of Ukraine to wage a terrorist war against Russia. The announcement
was made in early March 2014, a week after the coup in Kiev. The creation of
the unit was initiated by the organization called Free Caucasus, which on March
3, 2014 made public its full support of Euromaidan and the new government of
Ukraine. It called upon
