Contents tagged with Yarosh

  • Former leader of Right Sector becomes advisor to Commander-in-Chief of Ukrainian Armed Forces

    Commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, ex-MP, ex-leader of the right-wing Ukrainian nationalist political party and paramilitary movement Right Sector Dmytro Yarosh was appointed as an adviser to the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

    "By order of Lieutenant General Valery Zaluzhny, I was appointed as an adviser to the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Thank you for your trust! Together we will win!", said Yarosh on his Facebook page.

    Yarosh did not provide …

  • Yarosh: In 2014 Ukrainian volunteers could have liberated Donetsk but were ordered to retreat

    In 2014, Ukrainian fighters could have liberated Donetsk, stated the commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, ex-MP Dmytro Yarosh on air of the TV channel Obozrevatel TV.

    According to Yarosh, Donetsk in 2014 was under the control of "real criminal gangs" and Russian regular forces were not there yet.

    "We even went past the "Donetsk" sign and then we received the order [to withdraw]," Yarosh said.

    Yarosh noted that the order to withdraw came "though the communication channel" of the …

  • Yarosh announces withdrawal of volunteers from the frontline in the Donbas

    Participants of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army (UVA) are leaving the frontline in Donbas, stated Commander Dmytro Yarosh, former leader of the Right Sector.

    “This day I announce that the 5th and 8th separate battalions of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army are leaving the frontline but we are not leaving the war. As long as there is a war, we will participate in it,"  he said. According to Yarosh, the UVA is now planning to establish resistance “in any area” and unite those who took part in the …

  • Leader of Right Sector: Ukraine will take back all its territories

    Ukraine will certainly regain all its ethnic lands, including the annexed Crimea and the Donbas, as stated by the People's Deputy Dmytriy Yarosh on his Facebook page.

    He thanked all Ukrainians who support the "sacred fight for the state and Ukrainian law."

    We have a lot of problems in Ukraine. With time, we will solve them. But we are a nation (and for the dead, and living, and unborn, my countrymen in Ukraine and not only in Ukraine), which lives and fights both on this God-given land and …

  • Leader of Right Sector to authorities: Stop repressions of pro-Ukrainian activists.

    Dmitro Yarosh, the leader of Right Sector, a far-right Ukrainian nationalist political party, called for defiance against authorities.

     In his statement he said:

    "Anti-Ukrainian scum is carrying out the revival of the pre revolution order and is provoking the people to  another revolt. The recent events have demonstrated this. And in particular this is the arrest of my comrade Sergei  Sternenko in Odessa “.

    Yarosh, the member of Ukrainian parliament , has accused the authorities of …