Poroshenko Advisor: We Need Nazi Volunteers, Not Drugged-up Draftees

Yuri Biryukov, an advisor to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and a loud voice calling on the U.S. to arm Ukraine, condemned the state of the Ukrainian military’s recruitment system in a Facebook rant on Tuesday, saying:

Biryukov said, as reported in Sputnik.

Speaking in favor of “recruitment on a volunteer basis,” Biryukov noted that he would soon present a plan to the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff for the formation of several experimental volunteer recruitment centers with branches across the country.

Biryukov said that the so-called volunteer battalions presently engaged in eastern Ukraine have demonstrated a “quantitatively different level of motivation, discipline and support among soldiers for one another.” Sputnik correctly notes that these “highly disciplined” soldiers are the neo-Nazis, such as Azov, Aidar, Donbas, and the Dnepr battalions, organized and financed by Dnepropetrovsk-based oligarch Igor Kolomoysky, and proudly wearing swastikas.