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Militias made up of Russian ultra-nationalists train in Saint Petersburg (Russia) and convey the idea that the Ukrainian nation does not exist.
These militants do not want to be recognized. Among themselves, they are called partisans. Men, and sometimes women, volunteers to go to Donbass (Ukraine) and help the Russian army. The objective of these ultra-nationalists is to restore the Christian Russian Empire to its ancestral borders, when Ukraine was only a province.
“For us, the Ukrainian state does not exist. They are separatists who, thanks to the help of the West, and unfortunately also the support of France, have created this territory from scratch to weaken the great Russia “, says the military leader of the Imperial Legion. The denial of a Ukrainian nation is an idea hammered home for years by the Russian authorities.
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