The East Special Purpose Company (Рота поліції «Схід»), East (Схід) for short, is a unit of the Ukrainian Special Tasks Patrol Police created in 2018 as a reformation of the Eastern Corps Company unit, this unit’s first commander was Serhii Tamarin, a veteran of the Azov Battalion and its membership is comprised of football ultras and former members of the Azov-predecessor organisation known as Patriot of Ukraine.
The current commander of the unit, Sergey Bohdanovskyi, was an early member of Eastern Corps who joined as part of the football ultra group, the unit has continued its activities since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
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