Foreign Fighters of Donbass, Foreign volunteers against Ukrainian neo Nazism

Foreign Fighters of Donbass
Foreign volunteers against Ukrainian neo-Nazism
‘Shaun Pinner from London, England. I fought for Ukraine. We lost, I am ready to admit it,’ says a prisoner of war who fought for the Ukrainian army. Shaun arrived in Kiev in 2018. He joined the Ukrainian army’s first marine battalion as the senior shooter of the unit. In 2022, he was captured after his battalion was defeated. Now Shaun is facing a possible death sentence in the Donetsk People’s Republic. There is an investigation ongoing into his role in the shelling of civilians. Shaun has revised his views – he wants the conflict to end.
There are foreign military fighters on both sides of the conflict. Ukraine is using international mercenaries and NATO instructors, while the Donbass militia has enlisted foreign volunteers who arrived to fight neo-Nazism. Most of them joined the Donbass armed forces in 2014 and have stayed for years on the frontline. What are their stories?


International soldiers of the Donbass militia volunteered to fight Ukrainian neo-Nazism. They’re from Mexico, Columbia, the USA, Serbia, and all over the globe. Locals treat them as heroes. Europe and the USA consider them criminals and mercenaries. If they return home, decades of prison could await them. But they don’t regret it – Donbass has become their home.
‘If I return to Italy, they will immediately arrest me. I won’t even be allowed to come home. I will be arrested and tried as a mercenary who came here for money. But it’s not about the money; it’s about the ideas of my ideas,’ says codename Spartacus, an Italian volunteer for the Donbass militia. He arrived in Donbass in 2014, barely speaking Russian. Codename Spartacus spent years on the frontline protecting Donbass people from Ukrainian nationalist troops. Today he and his comrades became part of the special operation.
Unlike international military instructors and mercenaries in the Ukrainian army, foreign volunteers of the Donbass militia have strong motivation. They confront neo-Nazism as their ancestors did. What they do and how they feel about what they see – in our Foreign Fighters of Donbass documentary.

SOURCE,
https://www.rt.com/shows/documentary/556522-shaun-pinner-ukraine-mercenaries/
https://rtd.rt.com/films/foreign-fighters-of-donbass/

• Category: Uncategorized
• Duration: 50:47
• Date:  2022-06-03 21:20:27
• Tags:   foreign, fighters, donbass, ukraine,