“Officers don't realize what they're fighting for,” “crazy uselessness,” “suicide.” erstwhile leader of alleged “separatists” about Russian army

Igor Girkin aka Strelkov, travelled to east Ukraine to enlist in the occupied areas of the Donbass in the militia of the alleged Donetsk People's Republic. He was not accepted into the ranks of the collaborative formation and returned to Moscow. Girkin regularly criticizes the conduct of the invasion troops. Girkin is simply a GRU spetsnaz colonel. He was a commander of separatist troops, head of the ministry of defence of the para-state creation of the alleged Donetsk People's Republic.