Dnipro regiment
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Дніпро (Dnipro) |
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 Badge of the "Dnipro" regiment |
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| Lineup | April 2014 |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Type | regiment |
| Strength | from 1,000 to 5,000 |
| Location | Dnipro |
| Commanders | |
| Commander in Chief ( Ukr. Почесний командир полку ) |
Yuri Bereza ( Ukr. Юрій Береза ) |
| commanding officer ( ukr. Командир полку ) |
Vyacheslav Pechenko ( ukr. В'ячеслав Печененко ) |
The Dnipro Regiment ( Ukrainian Полк Дніпро) is a voluntary Ukrainian combat unit founded in April 2014 .
history
The association was set up in the context of the crisis in Ukraine in 2014 on the initiative and with financial support of the multibillionaire and oligarch Ihor Kolomojskyj to militarily fight the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine .
According to media reports from June and August 2014, the combat unit has a strength of 2000 to 5000 men. Some of the regiment's trainers are said to come from abroad, for example from Israel , Romania and Georgia . Kolomoyskyi has invested a total of around 10 million US dollars in setting up the combat unit.
The regiment is stationed in Dnipro , but has also been used in combat operations outside of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast . There are reports that the battalion or part of it is stationed in the immediate vicinity of the city of Donetsk . Like the other voluntary Ukrainian combat units, the Dnipro battalion is formally subordinate to the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine or the National Guard , but is not integrated into the Ukrainian army .
See also
Web links
- Official website of the Dnipro regiment (English, Russian and Ukrainian)
- Appearance of the Dnipro regiment at vk.com (Ukrainian)
- Petro Poroshenko takes action against mercenaries of the oligarchs. In: spiegel.de. March 26, 2015, accessed March 26, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e "About us" page of the Dnipro battalion. In: Battalion Dnipro. Retrieved on February 16, 2016 (English, Russian, unknown language, Ukrainian, own information).
- ↑ a b Crisis in Ukraine - oligarchs finance battalions. (PDF (50.2 kb)) (No longer available online.) In: ZDF . August 5, 2014, archived from the original on August 15, 2014 ; Retrieved September 28, 2014 (Russian, manuscript of the broadcast Frontal21 ). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Contact details of the Dnipro battalion. In: Battalion Dnipro. Retrieved February 16, 2016 (English, Russian, Unknown Language, Ukrainian).
- ^ Separatists: high turnout in referendum. In: FAZ . May 11, 2014, accessed September 28, 2014 .
- ↑ Ukrainian secret weapon: The Resolute Oligarch Ihor Kolomojskyj. In: Wall Street Journal . June 27, 2014, accessed on September 28, 2014 (English, original title: Ukraine's Secret Weapon: Feisty Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky).
- ↑ The Ukraine conflict in numbers. In: RIA Novosti . August 1, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 .
