UaPosition starts a new category, where will be published texts about events in Ukraine during last few years through the eyes of witnesses. The information can be sometimes unexpected, shows the subjective points of view of participants, however, it is more honest and truthful than politically correct official news made by politics and diplomats. Originally posted by “Novoe Vremia”, translated by Anna Walden for UaPosition There are over a thousand of them – you would not find more accurate figures even in the general Headquarters of AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine – UaPosition]. They are all very different, sometimes intriguing – Russians, Byelorussians, Georgians, Polish, Swede and Israeli.  They are all fighting in Donbas on the side of Ukraine. All of them are volunteers. All of them, except of two people, are not Ukrainian citizens. And although President Petro Poroshenko promised to issue Ukrainian passports for all volunteers who are fighting on the side of Ukraine. He did not do it. They carry on fighting regardless, they didn’t get here to receive a passport after all. Halyna Korba is writing about seven foreign volunteers who are risking their lives for the freedom of another country and what they are getting from it, for Novoe Vremia. “I will go back to Russia only in a tank” Oleg Butusin, 45 years old, Russia The biography of Oleg Butusin would ideally suit a fanatic of “Russian world”: a naval reserve officer from Vladivostok, Orthodox traditionalist, a ploughman, a father of ten children, in the past – a member of Russian Kazaks. There are lots of similar people fighting in Donbas – on the side of so called republics. But Butusin can see those people only through the sniper scope: a lot of his acquaintances from the Kazaks are fighting against Ukraine. He made his choice at the beginning of Maidan and took the side of Ukraine. He was proven right in the summer of 2014 – during the battle of Ilovaisk, organised with the collusion of the Russian armed forces. At the same time as his stay in Kuban, he witnessed Russia supplying Donbas with military personnel, armaments, and ammunition for the “LNR” [Luhansk People’s Republic – UaPosition] and the “DNR” [Donetsk People’s Republic – UaPosition] by air and by rail. See also: “Grads” and “Buks” in the ATO zone. Infographic. The official...