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"Moscow Must Burn": Ukraine's "Christian Taliban" Pledges Anti-Russian "Crusade"

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"Like the majority of Ukrainian people, I think (the new leadership) is bad ... They steal a lot. When Yanukovich was stealing, that was bad. But these people are clearing up when the country is at war, so they are guilty on two counts. This is marauding."

Those are the words of Dmytro Korchynsky, the commander of "Saint Mary", a volunteer battalion that, like Ukraine’s official forces, is fighting to subdue the Russian- backed separatists who control the eastern part of the country. 

Korchynsky - who spoke to Reuters - shares his generalized disaffection for the Poroshenko government with other Ukrainians who feel that little has changed since the ouster of Viktor Yanukovich. 

"The (Maidan) revolution was interrupted by the aggression (in the east) and the patriots left Maidan and went to the east to protect Ukraine. Only 10 percent of people in positions of power are new; the rest are all the same, pursuing the same schemes they always did", says Serhiy Melnychuk, an MP and volunteer battalion founder who also sat down with Reuters. 

Over the course of the last year, Ukraine has become the battleground for a proxy war between Russia and the West. It’s one of several pieces currently in play on the geopolitical chessboard, and its citizens, like those of Yemen and Syria (fellow pawn nations), have been forced to endure a humanitarian crisis while more "consequential" countries sort out how the spoils will be divided and how borders will be redrawn.

Some Ukrainian nationalists however, have chosen to take matters into their own hands, taking up arms against the separatists and likening themselves to a "Christian Taliban" bent on ensuring that "Moscow burns."

Here’s more from a Reuters special report on Ukraine’s "maverick battalions":

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 moustache, 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 separatists. In the view of the government, however, some of the volunteers have become a problem, even a law unto themselves.

 

Dressed in a colorful peasant-style shirt, Korchynsky told Reuters that he follows orders from the Interior Ministry, and that his battalion would stop fighting if commanded to do so. Yet he added: "We would proceed with our own methods of action independently from state structures."

 

Korchynsky, a former leader of an ultra-nationalist party and a devout Orthodox Christian, wants to create a Christian "Taliban" to reclaim eastern Ukraine as well as Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014. He isn't going to give up his quest lightly.

 

"I would like Ukraine to lead the crusades," said Korchynsky, whose battalion's name is Saint Mary. "Our mission is not only to kick out the occupiers, but also revenge. Moscow must burn."

 

Most of Ukraine's almost 40 volunteer battalions grew out of squads of protesters who battled the Berkut riot police during the protests on Kiev's Independence Square, or Maidan Nezalezhnosti, which began in November 2013. 

 


 

After the protests toppled President Viktor Yanukovich, pro-Russian separatists rose up in the east of Ukraine in April, 2014, demanding independence from the new government in Kiev, which they called a "fascist regime." In response, several leaders of the Maidan protests raced east with fellow protesters to try to stop the rebel advance.

 

Numerous brigades and battalions formed haphazardly, with most leaders accepting anyone willing to fight. Serhiy Melnychuk, who founded the Aidar battalion in eastern Ukraine and is now a member of parliament, said he signed up people between the ages of 18 and 62 and "from the homeless to pensioners."

 

Irregular though theses forces were, some acquired weapons from the Defense Ministry, officials and battalion leaders said. Others received money and equipment from wealthy oligarchs. They became powerful forces in the struggle against pro-Russian separatists. 

 

In his billiard club headquarters, commander Korchynsky of the Saint Mary battalion made his disdain for the government plain. "Like the majority of 

Ukrainian people, I think (the new leadership) is bad ... They steal a lot. When Yanukovich was stealing, that was bad. But these people are clearing up when the country is at war, so they are guilty on two counts. This is marauding."

 

He said the revolution that began with the Maidan had been interrupted, but would one day be completed. He did not say when.

 

If so, he will have to confront Poroshenko. On July 16, the president, decried the problems posed by unspecified "internal enemies" of the country.  He told parliament: "I will not allow anarchy in Ukraine."

So in the end, we suppose the question is whether US weapons shipments to Kiev will be handed out to Ukraine's "Christian Taliban" and whether they, like their namesake, will one day turn those weapons back on the US once the Russians have been expelled. 

Scratch that. The real question is this: what does George Soros think?

 

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Thu, 07/30/2015 - 22:38 | 6373823 besnook
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i am so relieved it is the christians behind the ukraine war and not the zionazis.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 22:57 | 6373848 sagitarius
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Poor idiot.

Reuters=ziojews=they support war anywhere in the world, against Russia quite sure.

who needs christianity? or Islam? those judaic religions from Jews for Stupidos in ancient Rome and arabic countries to subdue them?

We in Europe we have our own gods: Kelts hasve druids,  Scotch have druids , the french have their druids, the northern vikings have their druids, germans, franks, saxons, Slavic people, all of us have our own Gods. We have to abolish those judaic relicts first.

 

And this moron warships judaic religion called christianity.

He pissed me off.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 23:28 | 6373963 asfffasfff
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yeshu never fulfilled the basicts to be messiah and with paul the new testament turns into nonsense

islam is nothing else but a copy to target jews and christians

i assume islam was created with the help of jews as a tool, which backlashed

 

there is no god

its only a tool for intellectuals to keep stability inside and conquer other nations

 

best actual example   yisrael

Fri, 07/31/2015 - 01:02 | 6374194 livefreediefree
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Congrats, Russkies, that you took time out from fantasizing about Putin's dick up your ass to post drivel. You know, empathy is one of my strong suits, so, knowing you Russkies as well as I do, my advice is to forget posting drivel and concentrate 100% of your time on your behind being split by Putin's cock. Your drivel is eighth-rate, but your fantasies should greatly help reinforce and buttress the utter depravity and barbarity that is the Russian soul.

Fri, 07/31/2015 - 01:39 | 6374267 Volkodav
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bored

Fri, 07/31/2015 - 05:02 | 6374500 SmittyinLA
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Dumb assed Ukie thinks the revolution was his, he ignored geography, history, demographics and reality, he probably met with McCain.

Fri, 07/31/2015 - 05:08 | 6374502 Canary Paint
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I am very disappointed in this article. It is good to get the word out about fascist militias in Ukraine. However, saying that the separatists in the east are "Russian-backed," describing the conflict as a proxy war between the US and Russia, and concluding with the line "once the Russians have been expelled" pretty much reinforces the bullshit narrative being propagated in US and European media.

It is far from clear to what extent the Eastern separatists are being supported by Russia, it is more of a proxy war by the US against Russia, and talking about the Russians being expelled manages to obscure the historical relationship between Ukraine and Russia.

Shame on you, ZH. You should know better.

Fri, 07/31/2015 - 07:35 | 6374676 smacker
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"It is far from clear to what extent the Eastern separatists are being supported by Russia..."

Exactly. Regular reports by Poroshenko and his cronies that columns of Russian tanks/APCs/artillery are entering East Ukraine every other week are never backed up with a shred of verifiable evidence, but are nevertheless propagandered on ZH and elsewhere by people like the Latvian troll, currently posting as "newsoutlet".

What we do know however is that the Ukraine coup and parachuting in of Poroshenko and large supplies of weapons/money are all down to the West.

Fri, 07/31/2015 - 06:21 | 6374555 f16hoser
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Hey Dumb Ass; NATO is the Occupier. If you're the bwst Ukraine has NATO is run by Dumber Asses....

Fri, 07/31/2015 - 09:59 | 6375162 theyjustcantstop
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you millennials better take at least one college course in geography, so you know where the countries are located that  the BIS, cia, MIC, the us state dept, are going to send you via the draft.

all this, after the president of Ukraine admitted the junta was politically, and monetarily backed by the us, and nato.

theres got to be nukes involved soon, the BIS, and the NWO'ers, are looking bad just starving and killing 10's of thousands a month, of the 5,000,000,00 they want to get rid of.



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