Ukraine crisis: Mercenaries, Nato M16 cartridges and US military meals - evidence of Western involve

[jakeXT]

1. They fail to mention that Right Sector has been recruited into the National Guard

The M16 is not standard issue for the country’s army, but the force which had assembled in this village included units of recently raised National Guard, and the assault rifles could have been obtained through a third party by the Kiev administration.

Nevertheless, the Kiev government set up a new National Guard, recruited largely from the Right Sector and other ultra-nationalists and fascists, and has thrown it, as well as the Right Sector directly, against pro-Russian oppositionists in the east to supplement the operations of the Ukrainian military.

In an interview last month with the German publication Spiegel Online, Yarosh boasted of state support for his forces, saying, “Our battalions are part of the new territorial defense. We have close contact with the intelligence services and the general staff.”

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/05/05/time-m05.html

And they have US weapons

He also told us that he recently ran into a man in an American uniform, carrying an American-made rifle. “It was a bit odd, but it turned out he was Ukrainian,” Skillt said. “He had a modified, short-barrel M-16 with a telescopic sight. We said a quick hello.”

http://www.friatider.se/swede-patrols-ukraines-streets-with-right-wing-paramilitaries