Mykola Kositsyn
Mykola Iwanowytsch Kosizyn ( Ukrainian Микола Іванович Козіцин , Russian Николай Иванович Козицын ; born June 20, 1956 in Torezk ) is a Ukrainian businessman and rebel commander.
He comes from the Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine and belongs to the ethnic and cultural leadership structure of the Don Cossacks . Kositsyn is the leader of the "Cossack National Guard", one of the separatist groups during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014 and to which around 3,000 people belong. Kositsyn is suspected to be the mastermind behind the kidnapping of two groups of OSCE observers in 2014. The voice of Kositsyn is said to be heard on a sound recording released by the Ukrainian secret service , which is supposed to reproduce telephone conversations between people involved in the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 .
Individual evidence
- ^ OSCE hostages held by Cossack rebels , Die Zeit online
- ↑ The separatists in eastern Ukraine, Greenpeace magazine online , July 3, 2014
- ↑ Who will become the Lugansk Kadyrov?
- ^ Confusion of rebel groups , ORF online
- ↑ Николай Козицын: "Задержанных наблюдателей из ОБСЕ никто не собирается отпускать!"
- ↑ SDU, radio interception of conversations by the terrorists, crash of "Boeing-777" on YouTube, July 17, 2014, accessed on September 11, 2014.
- ↑ MH17 Shootdown: Russian Cossack Leader Made 'Spies' Phone Call , NBC online
- ↑ Kosaken -Führer gave the order to shoot down , OE24 online
- ↑ “There is war here!” What does this Cossack have to do with the MH17 downing? , Focus Online
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| SURNAME | Kositsyn, Mykola |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kositsyn, Mykola Ivanovych (full name); Козіцин, Микола Іванович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | ukrainian businessman and rebel commander |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Torezk |