From the CIA?klr wrote:It would indeed be a spectacularly bad move ... if it were true. It comes from ITAR-TASS, successor to TASS. It's not exactly known for being impartial. Quite the opposite in fact. It smells exactly like the sort of "news" that Russia would want to use as a reason for taking over Eastern Ukraine.
BTW, where on earth would the cash-strapped Ukrainian government get the hard cash to employ such a private army?
But I take the point that it may not be substantiated ATM...