Ukraine: Russo-Ukr War (June-December 2015)

[OUTLAW 09]

From Post 72 and cited in part:

From the link; originator 'eugene7' which is dated nine months ago. In the comments 'fereglovesyou':

'eugene7' responds:

As I recall other, better photos of the shooters @ Maidan have appeared, although conclusive to some IIRC, others disagreed. It appears plausible that the Berkut contingent from the Crimea, known to have been present @ Maidan, changed sides when Russia asserted itself in the Crimea, hence the photos.

A follow up with a TASS press release from that period.

Crimean Berkut police to preserve name as it incorporates into Russian Interior Ministry

Russia
March 24, 17:44 UTC+3

SIMFEROPOL, March 24. /ITAR-TASS/. Crimea’s Berkut police unit incorporated into the Russian Interior Ministry will preserve its old name, Russian Interior Ministry Vladimir Kolokoltsev said at a meeting with the unit’s officers in Simferopol on Monday.

Kolokoltsev said that Berkut had proven to be an efficient and well-functioning unit which showed high level of training and moral strength in hard conditions.

There were indications that after the disbanding of Berkat a number of the Kyiv members fled to the Crimea but that would have been after the Maidan not before. Others remained in Donetsk and formed the mercenary Ghost volunteer BN following the former Ukrainian Commander of Alpha.

In another comment in that thread and right after the shot down of MH17 he (the Ghost BN Commander)openly critiqued the shot down having been conducted by the mercenaries--he later retracted that publicly recorded statement and has not made a single statement for the public since then.

Way back in the first Ukraine military thread just after Crimea there was posted a couple of photos of a Kyiv Berkat member in Russian Spetsnaz uniform in Crimea--and in another Russian VK (FacebooK) page indicating that a member of Spetsnaz had been in the Ukraine prior to the Maidan conducting recons.

The VK page was in fact from a actual Russian Spetsnaz individual not a former Berkat.

NOTE: from a 3 Sept blog comment:

If you wondered, who killed people on #Euromaidan: soldiers from #Russia in #Ukraine uniform!
https://twitter.com/lennutrajektoor/...72131424063488 … pic.twitter.com/KZK9ARCrd1