The extreme right-wing organisation Russian National Unity (RNE) continues to recruit Belarusian volunteers to fight against the Ukrainian army in Donbas. Its founder Alexander Barkashov registers would-be members of Russian neo-Nazi military groups via his Vkontakte social network profile.
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“We reiterate that the citizens of Belarus who expressed their wish to join the RNE volunteer groups go to war in Novorossiya through the territory of the Russian Federation, not through the territory of Belarus <…> All coordinators are Russian citizens, they are in the territory of the Russian Federation. We have the Union State and the borders are open,” the website of the Belarusian branch of the Russian National Unity says.
In May, 2014 the press service of the Belarusian KGB questioned the plausibility of the report.
“We have taken note of this information. It can be compared to some provocation. Our attitude to this is negative but we do not know whether the information by the RNE is true,” Artur Strekh, the KGB press officer, told Belsat.
In its turn, the Belarusian branch of the RNE has published several dozens of photos featuring volunteers who are fighting for self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics in the east of Ukraine.
‘The armed revolution in Ukraine’ resulted in sweeping ‘the junta and CIA agents’ to power, the Belarusian branch of the RNE states. The extreme Russian nationalists say that the ‘junta’ bears a strond resemblance to members of the Belarusian People’s Front who ‘want to make a mess in the republic [of Belarus] using U.S. money.’
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JW/MS, www.belsat.eu/en/
