Former leader of Russia-backed separatists Igor Strelkov during July 20’s televised debates with the Russian opposition’s Aleksey Navalny said he had organized the invasion of the Ukrainian Donbas in 2014 using money from the Russian-occupied Crimea.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
UNIAN: Girkin – Funds, arms for Donbas invasion `taken from annexed Crimea`
Commander and self-proclaimed minister of Defence of so the called "Donetsk People's Republic" Igor Girkin, aka Strelok (C), walks with his bodyguards in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on July 11, 2014. Intense battles raged on July 11 around the airport in the main stronghold of pro-Kremlin insurgents as Ukraine's new leader laid out tough terms for a ceasefire demanded by his European allies and Russia.
