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Crimean Blockade Organizer Launches Guerrilla ‘Tatar Battalion’ with ‘Turkish Help’?

by mosesman
The Russian Bear will not be bullied or intimidated by the west.
When you invite a Bear to a fight, it is the Bear which decides when the fight ends!
  • Whether this article is Russian propaganda or not, I do not know. What I conclude from this article is that the ‘disagreement’ between Russia and Turkey will get worse.
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  • Crimean Blockade Organizer Launches Guerrilla ‘Tatar Battalion’ with ‘Turkish Help’?
    by https://www.rt.com/news/  
    A self-proclaimed Crimean Tatar leader and the coordinator of the peninsula’s land blockade and power blackout, has claimed that the Turkish defense ministry is helping with the formation of a Tatar battalion tasked with sabotage.
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    In a set of interviews to Ukrainian media, Lenur Islyamov who represents the unregistered organization “Majlis of Crimean Tatars”, announced that the Turkey is taking an active role in the formation of the “Tatar battalion” tasked with “protecting the Crimean frontier” and carrying out attacks inside the peninsula.
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    “While the Ukrainian Defense Ministry still only scratches its head, the Turkish Defense Ministry has already begun supporting us,”     said Islyamov, adding that Ankara has so far provided the newly-assembled radical force with boots and uniforms.
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    The volunteer battalion is allegedly relying on “public donations” so far, but soon, Islyamov hopes, the paramilitary structure will be incorporated into Ukraine’s defense forces.
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    “We now have more than a hundred people who have already entered the battalion as volunteers, but we hope that after all the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, will create and allow the Crimean Tatars to have their own national battalion within the armed forces,”Islyamov told 112 Ukraine TV channel.
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    Islyamov hopes that the new force of around 560 fighters will serve as a “Tatar navy seals” battalion. The main task of the paramilitary unit will be guerrilla warfare and acts of sabotage inside the Crimea.
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    “The main objective is the protection of the borders of Crimea from inside,”     Islyamov said in the TV interview. “The objectives of this battalion is to strike everywhere we can. In Crimea we know all the trails.”
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    Islyamov called for the further isolation of Crimea and promised to “liberate Tatars” from Russia and return the peninsula to Kiev “within a year.” Islyamov, who is a Russian citizen, is already being investigated by the Russian Security Service (FSB) for organizing a ground blockade of Crimea.
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