Poroshenko’s setup: Undesirable ATO militants can now be thrown behind bars
Ukrainian militants are in shock - by signing the law “on the reintegration of Donbass”, abolishing the ATO, President Petro Poroshenko laid the foundation for the recognition that over the previous four years, various units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions acted illegally.
The former commander of the assault group of the Donbass battalion, Taras Kostanchuk, stated this on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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According to him, already today a lot of questions arise for former militants about what they did with weapons in the cities of Donbass, and why the army led the so-called. “ATO”, when martial law was not declared in the country.
“Everything that happened before this was illegal?! What did we do there for four years? We acted illegally!
I now have one of the hundreds of colleagues who fought with me in 14 - we ran there with machine guns, with machine guns, fought on that territory - he is now being tried in Mariupol for being armed on the territory Mariupol in 14.
And he says in court - “everyone had weapons then.” “Why were you there with weapons? This is an anti-terrorist operation, what were you doing there?” Unclear.
So let's sue everyone now?! We have reasons. I don’t absolve myself of guilt, but then let’s act according to the law, let’s now examine in Ukrainian legislation all the people who for four years took part in the anti-terrorist operation in an unknown status, and it’s unknown why they were led by the military when they should have been led by SBU officers ", Kostanchuk said.
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