The Russian occupiers carried out a secret mobilization in the form of “volunteer battalions” and used it for war propaganda purposes.
Source: Ukrainian National Resistance (NRC)
Details: The NRC said the Russians had a battalion supposedly of volunteers, but in reality a detachment of hired mercenaries, the Donetsk Battalion.
Of course, no Donetsk citizens will be provided, as recruitment is taking place in Krasnodar Krai in Russia.
This battalion was subordinate to the Terek Cossack Brigade, which had nothing to do with the Cossacks.
The NRC emphasised that the Kremlin once again uses the term “Cossacks” to smear Ukrainian history to draw analogies with the Cossacks.
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