The 'Cavalry' has Arrived! The Night Wolves, Pro-Kremlin Bikers to The Rescue in Crimea.HT: Interpreter.
Night Wolves leader Aleksandr Zaldostanov, known as “Surgeon,” has arrived in Simferopol and is asking local residents “what they need.”
He said his club plans to “deliver humanitarian aid,” and told RIA Novosti that medicine and other goods will be “brought to Sevastopol from Stalingrad.” (Yes, that’s what he called the city which is usually named “Volgograd” in modern Russia).
Zaldostanov also said his club would bring ATVs, which would be helpful to Ukrainians “to maintain connections between checkpoints.” Earlier today the motorcycle gang helped Russian forces to take over airports and buildings in Crimea by blocking off roads, the Guardian reported.
The Night Wolves are notorious for their close ties to the Kremlin; last year President Vladimir Putin awarded Zaldostanov the prestigious Order of Honour for his “active work in patriotic upbringing of the young” and for helping search for the remains of missing World War II soldiers,
More here from Time. The 'Cavalry' has arrived !
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