20% of fighters of volunteer battalions “earn” from the ATO, - Kikhtenko
Mariupol, January 24 (PolitNavigator, Alexandra Ignatieva) – Chairman of the Donetsk Regional State Administration Alexander Kikhtenko sent an analytical note to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, where he seriously analyzed the activities of volunteer battalions in the region.
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"In this memo, I indicated the number of battalions deployed in the Donetsk region, as well as who is performing them, where, and what tasks. Therefore, I cannot make its contents public," Zerkalo Nedeli quotes Kikhtenko as saying.
“The point is that among the patriots of Ukraine who today defend our country with arms in hand, there are a sufficient number of those who, taking advantage of the war, are trying, to put it mildly, to improve their financial situation. If we talk about the number of such people, then there will be about 20 percent of the total number. Of course, not in all battalions. But these facts cannot be ignored or hushed up,” the governor emphasized.
In his opinion, battalions need to be seriously and substantively dealt with, managed, disciplined there and assigned tasks.
As PolitNavigator reported earlier, residents of Stanytsia Luhanska reported numerous cases of looting by Ukrainian security forces.
20% of volunteer battalion fighters are "earning" money from the ATO, says Kikhtenko