Taruta's advisor complained that they didn't have enough local Nazis to win in Donetsk
The Donetsk Maidan activists in 2014 did not have enough organization and their own military wing for events in Donetsk to develop according to the Odessa scenario.
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This was stated at a press conference in Kyiv, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent, by Konstantin Batozsky, who in 2014 held the position of adviser to the chairman of the Donetsk Regional State Administration, who appointed oligarch Sergei Taruta to Kiev after the coup.
According to him, in Donbass there has always been “a gigantic group of people who saw themselves only as part of Ukraine, but in that situation they were simply demoralized and confused.”
“By analyzing the events, I can come to the conclusion why we failed. Firstly, unlike the neighboring regions, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Odessa and so on, we had a fairly fragmented civil society. Moreover: this asset did not have its own significant combat wing. In Kharkov, liberation occurred largely due to the existence of a strong fan pro-Ukrainian movement there, which later turned into battalions of “swindlers”, the “Azov” corps, and so on,” emphasized Taruta’s ex-adviser.
“These people were the resource that Arsen Avakov, the Minister of Internal Affairs, could rely on. In Odessa there was a fairly strong asset that was operating. In Donetsk there was no such asset and there was no leadership that could direct and lead people,” added Batozsky.
Let us note that even the Kyiv media, loyal to the Maidan, as PolitNavigator reported, today it is recognized that the “Azov” mentioned by Batozsky has a neo-Nazi reputation.
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