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Ukrainian presidential candidate and Head of the Right Sector organization Dmytro Yarosh has announced the formation of "Donbas" special battalion consisting of people from Donetsk region.

“We coordinate all of our actions with the leadership of the National
Security and Defense Council, Interior Ministry and Security Service of
Ukraine,” Yarosh said at the press conference in Dnipropetrovsk on
Wednesday.

According to him, the activists and trained fighters of the organization are ready to help the special services.

Yarosh also said that he didn’t fear that the involvement of the
Right Sector members in the special operation of the Interior Ministry
and Security Service of Ukraine in the east would provoke a wave of
clashes with the people of Donbas.

He also said that his headquarters would be moved to Dnipropetrovsk.