Russians Find Few Barriers to Joining Ukraine Battle - NYTimes.com
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — It was at a barbecue outside a city in southern Russia, this Russian war veteran recalled, that he and some friends met an envoy for the separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine. They were fighting for their families, the envoy said, against the “neo-Nazis and ultranationalists” who had seized power in Kiev in a February coup.
“We asked him, ‘Do you need help?’ ” the veteran said in an interview on the Ukrainian side of the border. “He said, ‘Yes we do.’ And so we offered to help.”