This is intended to create the impression that the local population is voluntarily fighting for the occupiers.
Celebration of February 23 in Donetsk. They are created only on paper and do not function as a combat unit.
This was reported by the Center for National Resistance.
It is noted that these battalions perform a propaganda function. They must create the impression that the local population is voluntarily fighting for the occupiers.
In addition, there are “Cossack communities” in Russia, which were also created on the Ukrainian TOT for the same purpose.
Subscribe to our Telegram channel
“Now the Kremlin has decided to merge these two fake structures. Hoping in this way to at least slightly increase the number of militants in the “battalions”, and also to emphasize the narrative that, supposedly, the “Cossacks” support the aggressor,” the Center for National Resistance reported.