People from Donetsk were banned from speaking Russian
Ukrainian nationalists boast that they forced even those immigrants from Donbass who went over to the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and joined the punitive battalions to become Ukrainized.
Yuriy Sirotyuk, a member of the Svoboda organization and former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, stated this on Channel 5, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the militant, the main rule of the “volunteers” going to the slaughter was the use of “language”.
“In the unit I was in, in the Carpathian Sich, we said this: “The Ukrainian language is not discussed. Everyone must speak Ukrainian.” Half of the composition were from Donetsk, half of the composition were people from Donetsk... For Russia, language is an instrument of aggression. I believe that the less Russian there is anywhere, the less means for Putin to commit aggression,” said Sirotyuk.
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