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69-547: They officially defined themselves as a "voluntary formation of Ukrainian citizens, Ukrainians from abroad and non-Ukrainians - citizens of other countries who share the ideology of Ukrainian nationalism and have expressed a desire to participate in the Ukrainian people's armed struggle against external and internal enemies." The Ukrainian Volunteer Corps was mostly made up of members of Right Sector, but also accepts volunteers without any party affiliations, as well as foreigners. The DUK

138-623: A paramilitary formation known as the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps (DUK), a volunteer battalion formed by members of the Right Sector . On July 17, the first orders were given and the official statute was issued, and is considered the official date of formation of the Corps. During the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport , Yarosh was wounded on 21 January 2015 by an exploding Grad rocket in

207-536: A "national revolution" and dismissed the Viktor Yanukovych administration as an "internal occupational regime". In early February, weeks before the ousting of President Yanukovych, Yarosh stated in an interview that there would be no civil war in Ukraine because 80% of the population did not support Yanukovych. Right before the 21 February ouster of Yanukovych, in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution , Yarosh claims he and

276-470: A "radical nationalist". Mainstream Western media has generally called him a radical or extreme nationalist. Some mainstream and far-left sources have denounced him as a "fascist". On 12 March 2014, an editor of privately owned Lenta.ru website, Galina Timchenko , was fired by the company's owner Alexander Mamut for publishing a link to an interview with Yarosh he gave two days earlier, after Russian media regulatory agency Roskomnadzor formally warned

345-510: A (December 2021) request by Ukrayinska Pravda the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refused to disclose details of its alleged cooperation with Yarosh citing the confidentiality of the information requested. Prior to this request the (army) post of public advisers had been dissolved and Yarosh had thus been dismissed from his post. Yarosh met his wife Olha, who Yarosh claims

414-517: A Right Sector candidate in single-member district number 39 ( first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in Vasylkivka Raion . He won a parliamentary seat by winning this constituency with 29.76% of the votes. Yarosh did not join a faction in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament). He did join the inter-factional group UKROP . In July 2014, Yarosh announced the creation of

483-470: A criminal case against Yarosh, and some members (including party leader Oleh Tyahnybok ) of Svoboda and UNA-UNSO , for "organising an armed gang" that had allegedly fought against Russian 76th Guards Air Assault Division in the First Chechen War and for "public calls for extremism and public calls for terrorism". Yarosh has been placed on an international wanted list by Interpol at the request of

552-432: A mafia overtly cooperating with law enforcers." Some local leaders indicated the conflict ensued when Right Sector forces attempted to clamp down on the lucrative illegal cigarette smuggling trade to Western Europe, in which local law enforcement have been complicit. Immediate fallout from the events included the sacking of the leadership of the local Zakarpatya district customs service. Ukrainian MP Mykhailo Lanyo, fingered in

621-704: A medical battalion (the Hospitallers Medical Battalion ) and a "Field Gendarmerie ". As of 2015 the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps allows the recruitment of foreigners. It had two battalions composed exclusively by foreigners: the Sheikh Mansur Battalion , formed by anti-Russian Muslim Chechens , and Tactical group "Belarus" , composed by anti- Lukashenko Belarusians . In 2021 political scientists Daniel Odin Shaw and Huseyn Aliyev described

690-730: A member of the People’s Movement of Ukraine , coinciding with his service in the Soviet Army . In 1994, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Yarosh was one of the founders of the Ukrainian nationalist organisation Tryzub . He later became head of Tryzub in 2005. In October 2010, he tried to create a unified Ukrainian nationalist movement. In 2001, Yarosh graduated from the State University of Education in Drohobych , Ukraine (today

759-399: A public movement like People's Movement of Ukraine was in its early days. Yarosh did not participate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election . In the election he endorsed the candidacy of Ruslan Koshulynskyi . In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election DIYA joined a united party list with the political parties of Svoboda , Right Sector and National Corps . Yarosh himself

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828-709: Is a centralised agency headed by the Minister of Internal Affairs . The ministry works closely with the office of the General Prosecutor of Ukraine . It oversees the National Police of Ukraine ( police service ), National Guard of Ukraine ( gendarmerie ), the State Emergency Service of Ukraine ( civil defense ), State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (and its subordinate the Ukrainian Sea Guard ) and

897-464: Is the ministry of the Ukrainian government that oversees the interior affairs of Ukraine . The ministry carries out state policy for the protection of rights and liberties of citizens, investigates unlawful acts against the interest of society and state, fights crime, provides civil order, ensures civil security and traffic safety, and guarantees the security and protection of important individuals. It

966-540: Is the main commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army . From 2013 to 2015, he led the Right Sector nationalist organisation, and formerly the Right Sector's Ukrainian Volunteer Corps . In late 2015, he withdrew from the Right Sector. From 2014 until 2019, Yarosh served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine . In February 2016, he started a new organisation called Governmental Initiative of Yarosh (DIYA). In

1035-532: The Ukrainian Volunteer Army (UDA). The Volunteer Army would use units of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps — more specifically the 5th and 8th Battalions, as well the Hospitallers Medical Battalion — as a basis for his new formation. In February 2016 Yarosh started a new organisation called Governmental Initiative of Yarosh (DIYA). The departure of Yarosh resulted in at least 20% of Right Sector members leaving with him. According to Yarosh DIYA will be

1104-663: The 2014 Ukrainian presidential election , Yarosh received 127,772 votes (0.7% of the total). He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election from a single-seat constituency in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast by winning 29.76% of the votes. He lost the seat in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election . On 25 July 2015, at the request of the Russian authorities, Interpol placed Yarosh on its international wanted list. Since 2 January 2016 this request no longer appears on Interpol's website. Yarosh

1173-572: The ATO zone in order to prevent arms traffic by pro-Russian sympathizers to separatist forces through humanitarian convoys. In February 2015, the Azov Battalion started a military operation to push DPR separatist forces away from Mariupol , and it turned into a fierce battle for control of the village of Shyrokyne . In March, the Volunteer Corps started to be redeployed in the southern front around

1242-577: The Azov Battalion and Sich Battalion , or the "Dnipro-1" which "Dnipro-2" was named after, the Volunteer Corps weren't intended to be subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a " Special Tasks Patrol Police ", but to operate independently. This was caused by a distrust of the Ministry after Right Sector activist Aleksandr Muzychko was shot dead by the Militsiya. On July 17, the first orders were given and

1311-685: The Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University ). On 1 April 2013, Yarosh became an assistant-consultant to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) deputy from the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform Valentyn Nalyvaichenko , they are long-time friends. During the Euromaidan protests in early 2014, Tryzub became the core of the newly-founded Right Sector , a coalition of right-wing nationalists. During these protests Yarosh advocated for

1380-458: The National Police . Ukraine's militsiya was widely regarded as corrupt, and it had received accusations of torture and ill-treatment. The State Emergency Service was transferred under the jurisdiction of the ministry since 2014. The minister of internal affairs is in charge of the ministry. Prior to the 2015 police reforms, the minister was recognized as head of the militsiya . Many former ministers previously had experience with serving in

1449-593: The Nizhyn Raion , helped to defend the capital Kyiv during the Kyiv offensive , and were reported to have fought at the Siege of Mariupol . On 14 March, co-founder of the Right Sector and 2nd Separate Battalion commander Mykola Kravchenko was killed in action in the village of Horenka during the Kyiv offensive along with a Fox News journalist. The Ukrainian Volunteer Corps started

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1518-748: The Sea of Azov to the Shyrokyne standoff , covering the defensive flanks of the Azov and Donbas Battalion . By July, most volunteer forces in Shyrokyne were rotated out of the front by regular forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine . During the rest of the war in Donbas, the DUK patrolled around the line of contact at the ATO zone . According to Yarosh, by 2016 circa 300 volunteers remained in

1587-566: The Shyrokyne standoff in 2015. With the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine the DUK were absorbed and integrated under the chain-of-command of the Ukrainian Ground Forces , officially designated as the Center for Special Operations "Ukrainian Volunteer Corps" ( Ukrainian : Центр спеціальних операцій «Добровольчий український корпус» , romanized :  Tsentr spetsialʹnykh operatsiy «Dobrovolʹchyy ukrayinsʹkyy korpus» ). Ever since

1656-525: The State Migration Service ( customs service). Formerly, the ministry directly controlled the Ukrainian national law enforcement agency, termed the militsiya ( Ukrainian : міліція , Russian : милиция). This changed in July 2015, in the aftermath of Euromaidan , with the introduction of reforms by Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko to reduce corruption, whereby the militsiya was replaced with

1725-487: The transformer of the Sloviansk television station on Karachun mountain. When their four-car convoy attempted to pass an insurgent-controlled checkpoint, a gunfight broke out, leading to the first combat fatalities of the conflict. The Ukrainian government denied that the attack was carried out by Right Sector until two years later, when Yarosh admitted that it was true. There is still dispute over which side shot first. After

1794-660: The 2022 invasion, when they were formally absorbed in the Ground Forces as a special operations unit. In November 2022, the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps was reformed as the 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade "DUK" , and were training in the United Kingdom. In April 2024, the 67th Brigade was disbanded and its members transferred to other brigades of the Ground Forces due alleged preferential treatment of Right Sector members, which led to repeated losses in Chasiv Yar , and failures to reform

1863-486: The DUK. In July 2014, the DUK claimed to have 5,000 troops. The group was involved in combat during the war in Donbas and later in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . Most of the Ukrainian volunteer battalions were later integrated by the Ukrainian government into either the Ukrainian Ground Forces or the Ukrainian National Guard , but the DUK was one of the few that remained autonomous. This changed with

1932-487: The DUK. The UDA was formed using some former battalions of the DUK as a basis. Differently from many of the Ukrainian volunteer battalions and Territorial defence battalions , the Right Sector Ukrainian Volunteer Corps is not part of either the Ministry of Internal Affairs or Ministry of Defence . It operates independently, as such, the government does not provide weapons, only ammunitions, and

2001-688: The Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine instead, but Yarosh rejected this position as being beneath him. There were discussions of appointing Yarosh deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine , but these discussions quickly petered out for unknown reasons. On 20 April 2014, Dmytro Yarosh claims he was ordered by acting President Oleksandr Turchinov to lead 20 Right Sector members to sabotage an insurgent-controlled television tower in Sloviansk, leading to

2070-524: The Lenta.ru website for publishing this link. In this interview Yarosh said: "Sooner or later, we are doomed to fight a war with [the] Moscow empire". On 1 March 2014 Right Sector's page on Russian online social networking service VKontakte showed an entry with Dmytro Yarosh's alleged appeal to Doku Umarov , a Chechen militant guerrilla leader associated with Al-Qaeda , for support of Ukraine. On 2 March 2014, Right Sector's spokesman Art Skoropadskyi denied

2139-407: The Right Sector leadership was consulted by Yanukovych on the deal Yanukovych had signed with the opposition to end Euromaidan . Yarosh refused to endorse this agreement and refused to disarm Right Sector. In the aftermath of the collapse of Yanukovych's regime, Yarosh demanded to be appointed Vice Prime Minister for the law enforcement matters, but his demand was rejected; he was offered a post of

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2208-617: The Right Sector volunteers had were stolen from the Militsiya at the end of the Maidan. In 12 April, the pro-Russian unrest escalated when armed pro-Russian militants seized control city of Sloviansk . The Ukrainian government responded with an offensive against the separatists , marking the first major military engagement of the war in Donbas (2014–2022) . On 20 April, Yarosh led a group of armed Right Sector members who were covertly sent by acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov to destroy

2277-467: The Russian Federation on 25 July 2015. The charge last alleges he "incriminated [himself by making] public appeals to terrorism and extremism." These two actions are a crime according to Russian criminal code (205th and 280th articles, respectively). Yarosh has been placed on an international wanted list by the Russian Federation. This initially made him the only person wanted internationally after

2346-530: The Soviet Union "It became clear that the system was false". In 1989, Yarosh, who was 18 at the time, and a group of friends (who were all about twelve years old) were, allegedly, the first people to raise the yellow-blue flag of Ukraine in eastern Ukraine , more precisely in Dneprodzerzhinsk. The flag was sewed by his grandmother and her sister with cloth bought by Yarosh. Starting in February 1989, Yarosh

2415-476: The UDA as holding a "generic form of Ukrainian ultranationalism", which allowed the inclusion of ethnic minorities, including Muslim Crimean Tatars and Chechens , and ethnic Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks, and Romani . Dmytro Yarosh Dmytro Anatoliiovych Yarosh ( Ukrainian : Дмитро Анатолійович Ярош ; born 30 September 1971) is a Ukrainian activist, politician, nationalist and military commander who

2484-581: The UVC has to rely on either captured or independently funded equipment. It does cooperate with Ukrainian authorities, but it has in past made declarations that they would refuse certain orders: it said it would respect the Minsk agreements cease-fire but reserves the right not to comply with the ceasefire orders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and reserves the right to continue active hostilities in accordance with its own plans. Similarly, it refused to pull out its troops during

2553-464: The Ukrainian Volunteer Corps joined the blockage, together with members of the Azov Regiment they provided security to the demonstrators. At the start of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , the Right Sector mobilized their volunteer corps again to fight the invading Russian forces. The Ukrainian Volunteer Corps fought at the Siege of Chernihiv , where they fought for control of 10 villages around

2622-434: The Ukrainian Volunteer Corps retreated to the rear to their training base in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast . The base was surrounded by checkpoints of the 95th and 25th Air assault brigades. There were rumors that the "Right Sector" units were ordered either to disarm for refusing to go over to the subordination of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, or simply subjected to intimidation in order to "maintain order". In December 2015, it

2691-413: The Ukrainian volunteer movement. It said that Deputy Interior Minister Vladimir Yevdokimov's followers among the police had illegally searched or detained dozens of Ukrainian Volunteer Corps volunteers and confiscated weapons they had taken in combat. The Right Sector also demanded that President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko "clean out" the Ministry of disloyal members, otherwise they would withdraw from

2760-592: The Volunteer Corps together with the 51st Guards Mechanized Brigade took the town of Krasnohorivka . On 12 August, they lost twelve fighters when they were ambushed outside Donetsk heading to the Petrovsky District in August 2014. Only two soldiers in the bus escaped. Yarosh, the group's leader, vowed his group would avenge the deaths. Five days later, Right Sector accused the Ministry of Internal Affairs of harbouring counterrevolutionary forces seeking to destroy

2829-505: The advancing Russians. In July, the 4th Tactical Group was fighting in the region of Soledar and on 2 August, its commander Andriy Zhovanyk died in combat. In November 2022, the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps was reformed as the 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade "DUK" , and were training in the United Kingdom. Videos surfaced on social media claiming that the 2nd Battalion of the 67th Brigade were honing in their anti-tank skills. The Ukrainian Volunteer Corps first commander (and also its founder)

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2898-420: The beginning of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia in 2014. Since 2 January 2016 Yarosh's name can not be found on the international wanted list that is visible on Interpol's website. Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine) The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine ( Ukrainian : Міністерство внутрішніх справ України , romanized :  Ministerstvo vnutrishnikh sprav Ukrainy , MVS)

2967-437: The chance to see combat as soon as possible, without the petty regulations of regular army life." The independence of the unit has always been a point of contention and has caused controversy. In 2015 there were plans to fully integrate it into the Ukrainian Ground Forces . They refused to join the Armed Forces. In April 2015 the UVC was ordered to move back into the rearguard by the Ukrainian military forces. The combat units of

3036-404: The combat zone and march to Kyiv. Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov countered by saying the Right Sector volunteers weren't even on the frontlines. However, by August 17, Yarosh reversed and said his statement demands had been met in part and that his volunteers would continue to fight the separatists. Around the end September, the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps started to deploy its troops to

3105-507: The contact line doing specific tasks, such as reconnaissance and counter-sniper operations. On 10 July 2015, Ukrainian government forces clashed with Right Sector forces in the city of Mukacheve , located in Western Ukraine. Two people were killed. According to President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko 's parliamentary faction leader Yuriy Lutsenko , these events "result[ed from] the conflict of interests between illegal armed groups and

3174-506: The eruption of the war in Donbas in April 2014. The regular Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered a number of defeats and setbacks against the separatists, as they were ill-prepared, ill-equipped, lacking in professionalism, morale, and fighting spirit, and with severe incompetence in the high command. The reaction to these failures saw the creation of various " volunteer battalions " militias and paramilitary groups formed by willing civilians to fight

3243-423: The first combat fatalities in the Siege of Sloviansk . Yarosh denied his role in these events until two years later. Yarosh was a candidate in the 25 May 2014 Ukrainian presidential election . A poll conducted by the "Socis" research center (from 25 February – 4 March 2014) predicted that Yarosh's candidacy received the support of 1.6% of the people who were surveyed. On election day he actually received 0.7% of

3312-615: The invasion the DUK was tasked with operations harassing the advancing Russians. With the integration to the Army, they can have better access to materiel and equipment. However, the DUK still enjoys significant autonomy within chain-of-command and maintains its older, more looser internal command structure which has been described by journalist Aris Roussinos as "Unlike the regular army , DUK has an anarchic, democratic atmosphere in which soldiers discuss orders with their commanders and feel free to add their own suggestions [...] Most have joined DUK for

3381-723: The message was posted and approved by Yarosh. According to the spokesman, this alleged appeal to Umarov appeared on Right Sector's VKontakte webpage after one of its administrator's accounts was hacked. VKontakte blocks the page at a request of an Attorney General of Russia. On 11 March 2014 Russian State Duma deputy Valery Rashkin urged Russian special services to "follow Mossad examples" and assassinate leaders of Right sector Dmytro Yarosh and Oleksandr Muzychko . On 12 March 2014 an infamous Basmanny court  [ ru ] of Moscow has issued an arrest warrant of Yarosh in absentia alleging public calls for terrorism . In March 2014 Investigative Committee of Russia has launched

3450-449: The nearby village of Pisky. He was evacuated out of the conflict zone. In early April 2015, Ukraine's defence ministry announced that MP Dmytro Yarosh was to become an aide to military chief Viktor Muzhenko and that his Right Sector fighting group would be integrated into the Armed Forces of Ukraine . Yarosh resigned as Right Sector leader on 11 November 2015. After he was wounded on 21 January 2015 he had delegated tasks to others in

3519-619: The official statute was issued, and this is considered the official date of the formation of the Corps. The Ukrainian Volunteer Corps went to the front in the Donetsk Oblast , where they had their baptism of fire at the Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion when they captured the town of Avdiivka from the Russian separatist forces in Donbas together with the 93rd Mechanized Brigade . Later in 1 August,

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3588-583: The old volunteer battalion structure into an official military structure. The Ukrainian Volunteer Corps has its origins in vigilante militias created by the Right Sector formed during the Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity . After the fall of the Yanukovych government , the police largely abandoned the streets of Kyiv and groups of young men, including members of Right Sector, patrolled them armed mostly with baseball bats and sometimes with guns. The guns

3657-435: The organisation and he stated on 11 November 2015 he "did not want to be a wedding general". Especially since he claimed "my positions were not always the same as the aspirations of some of the leadership". Late December 2015 Yarosh announced he was forming a new political party that would have its founding congress in February 2016. Similarly, Yarosh announced the creation of a new paramilitary volunteer battalion known as

3726-399: The police, and were, prior to taking up the ministerial post, generals of the militsiya . Typically, the minister was afforded the rank of Colonel-General of the militsiya upon taking up his post in the Ukrainian government . Yuriy Lutsenko and Vasyl Tsushko are the only former holders of this office who had never served in any law enforcement agency . The minister of Internal Affairs

3795-551: The process and became integrated within the formal chain-of-command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces , as to better coordinate with regular military forces and get access to equipment, it was officially designated as the Center for Special Operations "Ukrainian Volunteer Corps" ( Ukrainian : Центр спеціальних операцій «Добровольчий український корпус» , romanized :  Tsentr spetsialʹnykh operatsiy «Dobrovolʹchyy ukrayinsʹkyy korpus» ). Tasked primarily with harassing

3864-486: The rear "under the slogans of patriotism" and noted that if "we start turning a blind eye to this, then chaos will come in Ukraine" At the same time, he added that many of the dead fighters of the Right Sector are heroes who defended the country. In 2014, the structure of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps was composed by mobilization, training and intelligence centers, and battalions, which are divided into combat (directly participating in hostilities) and reserve. The UVC also has

3933-513: The rest of the Ukrainian forces pulled out on early January. Due their fierce defense, the troops that fought in Donetsk Airport were nicknamed " Cyborgs " ( Ukrainian : кіборг , romanized :  kiborh ), a moniker given by DPR separatists. In December, the Corps joined fellow volunteer battalions 40th Territorial Defence Battalion "Kryvbas" , Dnipro-1 and Donbas Battalion in carrying out inspections on freight traffic going to

4002-418: The separatists on their own initiative. Many volunteers of the Right Sector initially formed the "Dnipro-2" volunteer battalion—in reference to Dnipro-1 —however, the Ministry of Internal Affairs refused to register that as the name of group. On July 15 2014, Yarosh announced the creation of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps as the Right Sector's own volunteer battalion. Unlike other far-right formations, such as

4071-625: The smuggling ring, reportedly fled Ukraine. Right Sector leader Yarosh called for calm, and denied that Right Sector troops were being withdrawn from eastern Ukraine. On 20 September 2015, the Right Sector together with the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People started a massive traffic obstruction of Russian-controlled Crimea . It saw demonstrators blocking traffic of trucks, railways, electricity and water going to Crimea. Although passenger cars were allowed to go. The Right Sector paramilitaries of

4140-418: The votes. In January 2019 Yarosh stated he only took part in the election "not to destroy the revolutionary structures after the revolution". He also stated that he was fully aware it was "virtually impossible" he could win the election and that because he was engaged in military action since the first days of April 2014 he did not campaign. Yarosh took part in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election as

4209-502: The west of the city of Donetsk, around the area of the village of Pisky and the Donetsk International Airport , taking part of the famous Second Battle of Donetsk Airport . Together with the Armed Forces of Ukraine , the Volunteer Corps stood their ground and held control of the airport after various attacks by Russian separatists and Russian Armed Forces for almost two months until they withdrew on 12 November, while

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4278-451: Was Dmytro Yarosh ("Yastrub") who was also the founder and Party leader of Right Sector . He led the DUK until November 2015 when he resigned as president of the Right Sector. After his resignation, he announced to the creation of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army ( Ukrainian : Українська добровольча армія, УДА , romanized :  Ukrayinsʹka dobrovolʹcha armiya, UDA ), a separate paramilitary group which would have close relations to

4347-526: Was a member of People's Movement of Ukraine organisation. From October 1989 to November 1991 he was drafted and served two years in the Soviet army as a private. During the dissolution of the Soviet Union , Yarosh joined Ukrainian nationalist groups. In 1994, he joined the Tryzub organisation, which he has led since 2005. Since October 1988, Yarosh has been active in Ukrainian politics: in February 1989, he became

4416-568: Was announced that the 5th and 8th battalions, and the medical battalion of the Volunteer Corps were integrated into the Army. In 2016, the Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatolii Matios stated in a radio interview stated that the Right Sector Ukrainian Volunteer Corps is an illegal armed formation in all legal grounds and in accordance with the Ukrainian Constitution . The military prosecutor spoke out against weapons in

4485-552: Was asked to join many times. In 1988 Yarosh graduated from High School #24 of Dniprodzerzhynsk. As almost all pre-teens and young teenagers in the Soviet Union, he was a member of Young Pioneers and later the Countrywide Leninist Communist Youth League organisations, youth-based sub-organisations of the Communist Party. In the mid-1980s, Yarosh became interested in politics and according to him

4554-554: Was born on 30 September 1971 in Dniprodzerzhynsk (now Kamianske ), a town in predominantly Russian-speaking Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central-eastern Ukraine. Yarosh grew up in a Russian-speaking family. His mother worked in a car factory and his father an engineer at a machine plant. Yarosh has described his early years as "a happy Soviet childhood." His father refused to join the Communist Party , although Yarosh claims he

4623-410: Was founded by Dmytro Yarosh — nom-de-guerre "Yastrub" ("Hawk")—who was also the leader of Right Sector, from an irregular militia that the Right Sector formed during the Euromaidan , which patrolled the streets after the fall of the Yanukovych government . In 2015, after Yarosh's resignation, he announced the creation of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army , a new paramilitary unit made up of former units of

4692-675: Was his first love, in elementary school . The couple married in 1993 and has 3 children: daughters Anastasya and Jarina and son Dmytro. On 11 March 2014 grandson Nazar was born. Yarosh was baptized in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate , (he claims) because "Then there was no other." In 1994 Yarosh converted to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church . Yarosh is a controversial figure. In Russia's state-run media he has been described as

4761-404: Was placed 3rd on the party list. But in the election they won not enough votes to clear the 5% election threshold and thus no parliamentary seats. The party did also not win a single-mandate constituency parliamentary seat. On November 2, 2021, Yarosh said on social media he had been appointed Adviser to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi . In response to

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