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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

Union boss ‘held up communist flag alongside people singing pro-Russia chants in occupied Ukraine’

The leader of a major railway union posed with a communist flag and was pictured alongside people singing pro-Russia chants on a visit to occupied Ukraine, it has emerged.

The general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), Eddie Dempsey, travelled to the Donbas region of Ukraine in 2015, one year after it had been invaded by Russia.

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