Buck Clay

There are many foreign nationals already in Ukraine and serving in the volunteer battalions. Volunteers continue to arrive from Russia, Europe, and Canada.

One of the measures taken by Kiev to maintain control has been to withdraw volunteer fighters from the contested seaside town of Shyrokyne, in Donetsk Oblast.

Simply because conventional forces (CF) and Special Operation Forces (SOF) successfully operated in unison on some levels throughout the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT,) it does not make the two effectively capable of sustaining future similar operation capability; nor does it prepare CF or SOF for future and unknown conflicts. Both CF and SOF are […]

Most of those in the Azov Battalion are volunteers, not professional soldiers. There is no regimented fighting force in existence in Ukraine today.

It is up to Ukraine to develop its volunteers into professional warfighters, or else allow them to continue to be little more than armed mobs.

This weekend marked the precipice of a growing situation in Ukraine previously addressed by SOFREP, the mounting power and uncontrollable nature of volunteer Battalions and Ukrainian Volunteer Corps (UVC), specifically Right Sector or (Pravy Sektor). After an incident in Mukachevo, a town nuzzled near the borders of Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, where the civilian population was […]

The Azov battalion, a 1,000-plus-man volunteer militia turned Ukrainian National Guard unit, has a fierce reputation as a pro-Ukrainian fighting force.

In Ukraine, most volunteer battalions have been reorganized under the appropriate command and control channels, but they still operate semi-autonomously.

KIEV – The fighting in Ukraine may have come to a ceasefire, for the most part, and from the calm in combat we can now see a new battle emerging out of the smoke from this conflict which is the very real road to recovery and recuperation for the injured veterans of Ukraine. Max, an […]