The Eurasia Daily Monitor of The Jamestown Foundation reported today that in addition to those steelworkers, wealthy Ukrainian businessmen in the east are bankrolling the formation of armed units that are then put sort of under the control of the Kiev gov to oppose the silovikian orcs.

Vlad must be very upset that locals are acting on their own hook. To me one important thing about this is it might be an indicator of the possibility of Ukrainian insurgent forces forming to oppose Russian forces if they roll across the border since forces are already forming to oppose the orcs. If that happened Vlad might have a tar baby on his hands dwarfing the North Caucusas. I wonder if his rule could survive that.