• Armed groups fighting separatists are fiercely independent• Many dislike current Kiev government and Ukrainian elite• President Poroshenko threatens to bring them under control• Attempts may be difficult and deepen country’s divisions
WikipediaDmytro Korchynsky
KIEV — From a basement billiard club in central Kiev, Dmytro Korchynsky commands a volunteer battalion helping Ukraine’s government fight rebels in the east. A burly man with a long, Cossack-style mustache, Korchynsky has several hundred armed men at his disposal. The exact number, he said, is “classified.”
In the eyes of many Ukrainians, he and other volunteer fighters are heroes for helping the weak regular army resist pro-Russian …read more
Source: National Post
