Who Are the Fighters? - Irregular Armed Groups in the Russian-Ukrainian War since 2014 (Paperback)

The war in Ukraine has been fought with, among others, irregular armed groups since 2014--volunteers, paramilitaries, and mercenaries. Based on interviews in the Russian-controlled Donbas and with Ukrainian combatants, the contributions to this volume disclose various micro-dynamics of the mobilization, group formation, and fighting. Who were these fighters and who organized them? Russia has been increasingly employing mercenaries as a way to conduct undeclared, but ruthless wars beyond her borders. Ukraine's formation of irregular armed groups in 2014 was a response to the army's initially glaring inability to counter Russia's military intervention. Most of the irregular battalions acted from the beginning under governmental orders. They have never operated autonomously, but compensated for operational weaknesses of regular armed groups. The initially high power of irregular battalions derived from state support, the capabilities of commanders, social networks, and the faculties of the fighters.

General

Imprint:	Ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild U Christian Schon
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Release date:	May 2023
Editors:	Andreas Heinemann-Gruder
Contributors:	Maksim Alyukov • Svetlana Erpyleva • Kostiantyn Fedorenko • Julia Friedrich • Volodymyr Kopchak • Vyacheslav Likhachev • Aleksandr Nevskii • Leonid Polyakov • Natalia Savelyeva
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	260
ISBN-13:	978-3-8382-1777-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	3-8382-1777-2
Barcode:	9783838217772

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