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Title: |
Who Are the Fighters? |
| Sub-title: |
Irregular Armed Groups in the Russian-Ukrainian War since 2014 |
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| Edited by: |
Andreas Heinemann-Grüder Series edited by: Andreas Umland Contributions by: Maksim Alyukov, Kostiantyn Fedorenko, Vyacheslav Likhachev, Leonid Polyakov, Natalia Savelyeva, Anton Shekhovtsov, Andreas Umland, Oleg Zhuravlev, Julia Friedrich, Nikolay Mitrokhin, Theresa Lütkefend |
| ISBN10-13: |
3838217772 : 9783838217772 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
260 |
| Weight: |
.342 Kg. |
| Published: |
ibidem - June 2024 |
| List Price: |
31.00 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
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| The war in Ukraine has been fought with, among others, irregular armed groups since 2014â volunteers, paramilitaries, and mercenaries. Based on interviews in the Russian-controlled Donbas and with Ukrainian combatants, the contributions to this volume disclose various micro-dynamics of the mobilization, group formation, and fighting. Who were these fighters and who organized them? Russia has been increasingly employing mercenaries as a way to conduct undeclared, but ruthless wars beyond her borders. Ukraineâ s formation of irregular armed groups in 2014 was a response to the armyâ s initially glaring inability to counter Russiaâ s military intervention. Most of the irregular battalions acted from the beginning under governmental orders. They have never operated autonomously, but compensated for operational weaknesses of regular armed groups. The initially high power of irregular battalions derived from state support, the capabilities of commanders, social networks, and the faculties of the fighters. |
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