The world has entered an era of hybrid wars. For the first time, Russia used such a war against Ukraine in 2014.
As of 2013, Russia has established a Ukrainian government with Russian agents. Ukrainian civil society has revolted against the pro-Russian government on the Maidan. An interim government was formed in Kyiv. It was at this point that Russia annexed Crimea. The new government failed to resist the aggressor militarily, and the United States and Britain did not want to protect Ukraine, as required by the Budapest Memorandum on Security Guarantees in exchange for Ukraine's nuclear-free status.
In the spring of 2014, Russia began to destabilize the situation in the Eastern regions of Ukraine: to introduce paramilitary units, to import participants in pro-Russian actions across the border. It became clear that the Crimean scenario is used here as well. In the conditions of the collapse of the Ukrainian army, the movement of volunteers to defend Ukraine began. People with completely different motivations received weapons and, in conditions of paralysis of the authorities, localized the advance of Russian expansion. This book is about the formation and combat path of one of the first volunteer battalions…
The book is interesting as an experience of the practice of voluntary movement in a weak State…
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