Foreign Fighters in the War in Ukraine

During the last decade at least 17 000 individuals, mostly Russians but also up to 1000 Westerners, joined the war in Ukraine. Many came from extremist settings, predominantly far-right (brown) but also far-left (red). This seminar looks into where these fighters are now, and what they have done after Ukraine.

Speakers bio:
Kacper Rekawek, PhD, has 15 years of experience in counter terrorism and countering violent extremism from academia (Queen’s University Belfast, Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews), think tanks (Polish Institute of International Affairs, PISM) and the third sector (GLOBSEC, Counter Extremism Project). Since 2014 he has been studying and published on the Western extremist foreign fighters in the war in Ukraine and is now finishing a book on the topic which will be published by Routledge. In the Summer of 2021 he will be joining the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at UiO as a postdoctoral fellow.

[paavali]

The war on Ukraine is a topic I've been greatly interested in for years, and this is one of the most detailed pieces I've seen about the Ukraine foreign fighter phenomenon, especially the part covering their various motives for joining either side. Really great stuff.

[shadowgovernment]

Great insight. A strange contradiction with the Christchurch mosque shooter is that in his manifesto his philosophy was all mixed up. He cited communist China as the perfect state, yet he was right wing. Another strange contradiction is a national socialist army in Nagaland, India _(fighting against India)_ .
 It is Evangelical, National Socialist & armed by communist China.

[RealityCheckGA]

As an American I feel compelled to Support the Current Ukrainian Government, since I don't like Communism. But on the same token I do not like Nazis or Islamic Jihadists.

[yulzz]

Asing sebaiknya jgn ikut campur biarkn Rusia mewara adiknya

[davidreynoso]

(Evil Putin dictator)....….
. Russia Get out of Ukraine Go Ukraine Military ) God Bless

[OperationFoxley]

As a Marxist I could not fight next to a Nazi, I'd have to get them first. In Northern Syria when the Anti Fascists found a Nazi or a Fascist in the ranks of the International Freedom Battalion they were dispensed with rather quickly.