Patreon Bonus episode. Today we're speaking to Michael Sheldon from D.F.

Lab and he's going to be speaking to us about the Dombass Lunatic, a neo-Nazi militant sadist fight. sadist fighting for the Russian-backed separatists.

I guess, I guess like everybody has kind of heard about the neo-Nazi problem in Ukraine on the

Ukraine side the government controlled areas but there is a small but weird contingent of neo-Nazis on the separatist side as well.

We're going to be speaking specifically about this one guy who is just extremely strange and

dangerous from what I understand that maybe just tell us about him

introduce this guy who we're gonna be speaking about?

Also Alexim Mekov is a Russian neo-Nazi or Nazi, who fought in Eastern Ukraine in 2014 and 2015. And so I think what most people known for is by the nickname

the puppy killer, that's sort of how you most here referred to in in English

speaking circles is the puppy killer and he you know got he got that nickname from after in September 2014. He ambushed a Ukrainian volunteer battalion and posted a, you know, some pretty gruesome footage from there.

And then after that fact, a video from 2011 came out during which you know he had

beheaded a puppy and allegedly eaten it eaten it I'm not sure if he if he actually ate it, but yeah, it may actually have been pictures and not in the video, but yeah, that's that's sort of where he got his claim to fame was just generally being a

masochist right yeah this guy is a fucking psychopath is absolutely disgusting

how did he end up in the DNR? You know you would think right this guy is a Nazi he might join Azov or like one of the more militant

misanthropic division groups you know how did he end up with a separatist?

He didn't, he didn't interestingly end up in DNR until 2015.

He started out in the in the in the Luhansk so called People's Republic at first. So going a little bit back,

Rousic began as sort of a concept.

Rousic, by the way, is the unit that he commanded.

And so, you know, it's this. the unit that he commanded.

And so, you know, it's this very odd collective of Millotense,

far right Millid sense, with very heavy,

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