The eastern Ukraine conflict is typically seen as a war between the Ukrainian military, on one side, and Russian-backed rebels, fighting alongside unacknowledged Russian forces, on the other. But there is another faction fighting as well, one that has gone largely overlooked: the dozens of private "volunteer" militias that share Ukraine's goal of crushing the separatists, but that aren't necessarily operating under its control.
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Ukrainian fighter of Sich Battalion shows a special emblem. Sich Battalion volunteers leave Kyiv to go to war in the Donbas on Feb. 17.
