Among those who responded are white supremacists and neo-Nazis from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.Ĭalls for foreign volunteers to fight alongside Ukrainian government forces have proliferated on Telegram, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media platforms. While the government has called for foreign volunteers to fight in the "International Territorial Defense Legion" – a new unit which has received "several thousand" applications from abroad – paramilitary groups have posted announcements for their own units. Ukrainian government officials and paramilitary groups have called for foreign fighters to travel to Ukraine to fight against Russian forces. The report focuses on extremist groups' fighting against Russia MEMRI will be releasing a forthcoming report about these groups' support of Russia.
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Ukraine's military said on Tuesday that it destroyed a formation of Russian forces in Makiivka.The following report is part of a MEMRI DTTM series covering neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups participating on the ground and reacting online to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Tass also quoted emergency services in Makiivka, adjacent to Donetsk, as saying that Ukrainian shelling had set ablaze parts of an oil storage depot. Russia's Tass news agency, meanwhile, reported that the number of dead recorded in 24 hours had risen to eight in what it described as shelling of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk. Russian attacks were also thwarted both north and south of the city, it added. In an evening report on Facebook, the general staff of Ukraine's military said it had repelled a Russian attack on the village of Bohdanivka, on the western approaches to Bakhmut. She said Russian forces were trying to advance near Lyman but were gaining no ground in any single direction nearby. Ukrainian troops were making some gains south of Bakhmut, though it was too early to describe this as an advance, Maliar said, adding fierce fighting was gripping areas north of the city. Our forces won't let them and in practical terms they can't leave. "On the one hand, they control the major part of the city and we control only the southwest. "If we are talking about Bakhmut itself, the enemy practically finds itself in a trap," she said.
Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield situation.ĭeputy Defence Minister Maliar, speaking on Ukrainian television, acknowledged that after Russia's capture of Bakhmut in May, Kyiv's forces controlled only small areas of the city. "It also gives access to heights from which Ukrainian artillery can better operate." "It would open communications and eliminate their (Russian) supply routes," he told Ukraine's NV Radio. Ukrainian military analyst Oleskandr Musiyenko said securing Klishchiivka was "important as it would lead to the liberation of Bakhmut itself. Russia's RIA news agency cited a Russian army source as saying that Moscow's forces had repelled a Ukrainian attack there without retreating and were finishing off remaining Ukrainian troops in the area. Ukraine has said its forces have had "partial success" in the Klishchiivka area. A Russian-installed official in eastern Ukraine denied the reports. The Russian defence ministry made no comment in its daily briefing on reports that Russian forces had retreated from the village of Klishchiivka, just southwest of Bakhmut. The Russian army in the area has since come under fierce pressure from Ukrainian forces who threaten to encircle it.
Russia's Wagner mercenary group captured the shattered eastern city of Bakhmut in May after 10 months of fighting. Ukraine's Deputy Defence Minister, Hanna Maliar, also reported fierce fighting further north around the town of Lyman, recaptured by Ukrainian forces late last year. July 5 (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday its forces had struck three Ukrainian army groups near Bakhmut, but Kyiv said its forces, despite limited control in the long-contested city, had the Russians all but pinned down.
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