The Siberian Battalion largely consists of people from ethnic minorities in Russia.
The battalion is expected to be sent to fight against Russia very soon, Bloomberg reported.
AdvertisementAdvertisementUkraine said Wednesday that it had created a whole battalion from Russians who wanted to fight their own country.
The battalion does not recruit captured Russian soldiers, he added, as per the Kyiv Post.
He called his battalion the Siberian Battalion.
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—, Andriy Yusov, HUR, Yusov, Vladislav Ammosov
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