KYIV: At a memorial service on Tuesday (Mar 7) for four Ukrainians killed last year while carrying out a raid on Russian territory, ordinary soldiers rubbed shoulders with volunteer fighters of the Brotherhood Battalion to which those killed belonged. The ceremony, at the historic gold-domed St Michael's c
KYIV: At a memorial service on Tuesday for four Ukrainians killed last year while carrying out a raid on Russian territory, ordinary soldiers rubbed shoulders with volunteer fighters of the Brotherhood Battalion to which those killed belonged.
The four members of the Brotherhood Battalion later buried in Kyiv were Yurii Horovets, 34, Taras Karpiuk, 38, Maksym Mykhailov, 32 and Bohdan Liagov, 19. Last week, for example, a different group called the Russian Volunteer Corps led by a Russian nationalist in exile who opposes Putin's rule, said it had briefly taken control of a small border village.
The raids present Kyiv with a dilemma. If regular forces were involved, it would represent a significant escalation in a war that has so far been fought almost exclusively on Ukrainian soil. Ukraine is believed to have struck deep inside Russia on several occasions using drones, though officials decline to confirm them.At the memorial for the Brotherhood fighters, whose bodies local media said were returned to Ukraine in late February, hundreds of soldiers and civilians crammed into the cathedral's ornate interior to watch priests bless the coffins.
Korchynsky was careful to distinguish between the battalion's activities in Ukraine, including areas occupied by Russians - where he said its members coordinate with Ukraine's armed forces - and those on Russian soil.Ukraine's defence ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on its relationship with the Brotherhood Battalion, called"Bratstvo" in Ukrainian, and the armed forces.
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