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UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CRISIS-POLITICS-PARAMILITARIES-FILES
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY SEBASTIAN SMITH
(FILES)-- A file photo taken on October 9, 2014 shows members of the pro-Ukrainian Azov regiment taking part in a training session near the eastern city of Mariupol. When Russian troops swarmed into Ukraine's southern region Crimea in March, Ukrainians dizzy with the success of the latest street revolution in Kiev were caught flat-footed. Their country of 45 million people, it turned out, barely had an army -- no more than 6,000 combat ready troops, according to the then defence minister. That's when thousands of civilians, in large part activists from the Maidan, began joining hastily thrown together battalions funded by everything from oligarchs to grassroots charities. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER KHUDOTEPLY
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Mariupol, UKRAINE |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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Alexander KHUDOTEPLY |
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31 Octombrie 2014 |
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5370 x 3610 (1.63 MB) |
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