Their presence had already been spotted on the front since mid-March.
According to a classified seven-page report by the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), exposed by the German newspaper Der Spiegel, the Russian forces present on the ground in Ukraine are supported by factions with neo-Nazi tendencies, namely the Russian Imperial League and the Rusich group.
This report describes these two militias as “at least two groups with an extreme right-wing feeling”, fighting against the Ukrainian army.
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