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The Volunteer Battalions are unofficial paramilitary organisations formed by various Russian and Pro-Separatist political and civil society organisations, including those on the far left and the far right (such as Russian National Unity and the Russian Imperial Movement), they were formed after the Euromaidan successfully toppled the Ukrainian government in 2014 (leading to the declarations of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics shortly after) or from groups that existed before the conflict and chose to participate
Most of the Volunteer Battalions were absorbed as formal organisations of the Donbas governments after their declarations of independence, as the Donetsk People’s Militia and Luhansk People’s Militia, controlled by the DPR and LPR Ministries of Defence.
Examples of the Volunteer Battalions include the Varyag Battalion, Russian Orthodox Army, Rusich Group, the Russian Imperial Legion and various Chetnik Units.
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