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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Niko Vorobyov

Social media posts call on Russians to join separatist forces

In this file photo taken on January 19, 2022, a pedestrian walks past a huge state emblem of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine [File: Alexander Nemenov/AFP]

Moscow, Russia – Russian volunteers are being sought to reinforce separatist forces in eastern Ukraine over social media networking sites such as VK, the Russian-language equivalent to Facebook which has hundreds of millions of subscribers.

Pinned to the top of a VK page titled “Army of the DPR”, which refers to the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), one of the two rebel-governed areas, is a post providing both Russian and Ukrainian contact numbers, as well as relevant street addresses in the city of Donetsk.

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