...and fire up the torrents
You keep repeating it doesn't makes it true. There's no 18 on Ukraine. Only paid professionals. If you saw some paramilitary looking guys then it was separatists forces, simple as that. War on Ukraine was happening for 8 years.
Who do you think Ukraine was at war for 8 years? Paid Russian actors? You know what civilian war means? Ukraine still shelling its separatists regions and unlike Russia they're not using precise strikes.
Yes, there was / is a very bad apples among Ukrainian national guards.
A little-noticed provision in the 2,232-page government spending bill passed last week bans U.S. arms from going to a controversial ultranationalist militia in Ukraine that has openly accepted neo-…
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Only because they're fighting Russian forces now doesn't makes them innocent. They are literally has no other choice, Putin said he's coming for all of them. The fact that Ukraine let some of their own prisoners go (murderers, rapists) out of prison and gave them weapons to fight Russia doesn't help either.
Now? Yes. Yes, they're hiding their forces in towns full of civilians. How else would you call it?