Moron, this is the same Strelkov(aka Girkin) that was rounding up at gun point parliament members in Crimea as it was getting annexed.
He is a Russian national who was previously working for their FSB and was later appointed as defense minister of DNR, under yet another unelected Moscovite that ran it.
Strelkov was armed with Russian military equipment and his goons even caused a major international incident by using Russian SAMs to shoot down a civilian plane.
A Dutch trial finds a missile supplied by Russia killed 298 people on board MH17 over Ukraine in 2014.
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