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In an attempt to use the same deniable methods of non-governmental violence being used by anti-Kiev militias in eastern Ukraine, Kiev is lending it's tacit ( and direct ) support to the formation of pro-Kiev private militias in eastern Ukraine. These individuals are intended to be anonymous wearing full face masks and carrying military weapons for the purpose of using, and threatening, deadly, extra-judicial, force against "corrupt politicians", "corrupt Ukrainian police" and other "corrupt Ukrainian officials" who do not stand up to anti-Kiev militias.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2 ... of-its-ownChristian Science Monitor on May 1st, 2014 wrote:
About 15 miles from the town of Krasnoarmiss’k, the so-called Donbass Battalion, a band of around 100 pro-Ukraine recruits from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions have built a training camp, drawing recruits via networks ranging from word-of-mouth to Facebook.
Their commander, a masked 38-year-old who goes by the name Semen Semenchenko, says he was a captain in the Ukraine’s army reserves. But he complains that a lack of political will in Kiev to mobilize local units became frustrating. So he’s formed his own volunteer fighting unit.
“We’re not against the citizens who have different points of view, or are pro-Russia,” Mr. Semenchenko said. “We’re against the politicians and corrupt police and elements of the army who are supporting the separatist movement.”
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The presence of armed men-in-black bivouacked on farm land is likely to alarm residents with pro-Russia sympathies.
Andriy Gobzhyla, a taxi driver who arrived with journalists, became visibly distressed at the sight of the armed men. Heated words were exchanged which escalated when Mr. Gobzhyla allegedly threatened to burn the farm down.
The militia men sprang into action, weapons were drawn, and a visibly frightened Gobzyhla was frog-marched at gunpoint inside the compound.
The militia seized the man’s phone which contained pictures of him, armed and wearing a flak jacket, at a separatist checkpoint. Police were called and the driver was turned over to local authorities as a suspected spy. Police later said they released him without charge.
But the tense scene illustrated the working relationship between the armed group – which wears Ukrainian army insignias even though it has no legal status – and Ukraine’s security services. An agent of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) – Ukraine’s successor to the KGB – on the scene confirmed that the militias are coordinating their actions, registering their weapons, and operate under an ad hoc agreement with top officials.
“The authorities allow patriotically inclined citizens to form paramilitary groups to defend Ukraine,” he said, declining to give his name.
That federal authorities are coordinating with pro-Ukraine militias, while at the same time demanding separatist militias disarm, has led to an increasingly large gap in trust between citizens demanding autonomy for Donbass – and Kiev’s interim government, whose support in eastern Ukraine is abysmal.
Here, even loyalists that don't want to join Russia are highly distrustful of the interim government in Kiev that came to power in the wake of the Maidan movement, who many in the Russian-speaking east distrust as being infiltrated by extremists and puppets of Western governments.
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