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31. and yet, the government-sponsored BBC confirms

Tue Jan 20, 2015, 11:24 AM

Jan 2015

that the volunteers are real, that they are there out of their own free will, don't receive any money for it and not even material support.

That is what, for instance, Strelkov has always been saying. And, yes, he was bragging that it was due to his organisational skills that the self defense forces were able to put up some resistance when the Ukrainian army, assisted by several Nazi 'batallions', came with heavy weapons and ground attack airplanes to crush them.

At the same time, he was always complaining about the lack of support from Russia which, according to him, is caused by a 'fifth column' influencing the Russian government. That he agreed to leave 'under pressure from Russia' (apparently in exchange for some material and increasingly necessary humanitarian support) only goes to show that these 'holy' warriors can be restrained, unlike certain forces the 'West' tacitly and/or openly supported.

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