Today marks 10 years since the creation of the «Vostok» battalion, which later became a brigade. As I look at this video of the

Today marks 10 years since the creation of the «Vostok» battalion, which later became a brigade. As I look at this video of the brigade’s first appearance at the Victory Day parade on May 9, 2014, I recall myself in May of that year. And, suddenly, I wonder: had Russell, who was still in America at that time, seen these shots? For some reason, I had never asked him precisely that. Considering how closely he had watched the events unfold from the very beginning of the so-called Maidan and had acutely experienced the massacre of people in Odessa, I think that he did see them. Did he think then, in America, that he would come here and become part of «Vostok»? I know that, even then, he had wanted to join those militiamen he saw in interviews, whose courage and selflessness he had admired. It was because he saw real Warriors standing up in defense of their land, disagreeing with the coup in Kiev. Russell told me about this many times. In December of 2014, he became one of them by p... Source: Siberian matrёshka?