Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
Rozhin already knows the answer: The Cossacks were treated horribly by Igor Plotnitsky, with several commanders dying at the hands of the authorities of both Lugansk and Donetsk, and independent formations being attacked and disbanded.
Cossacks took part in the mop up operations in February 2015 Debaltsevo. They had to have seen how the ruling authorities threw volunteer formations into a meat grinder.
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[ColonelCassad] In comparison with the events of 2014-2015, the much smaller participation of Cossack formations in hostilities attracts attention. If in 2014 the Cossacks, both those who fought and those who were hiding in the rear, were a very massive and widespread phenomenon, then in the campaign of 2022 they flicker only sporadically in the Luhansk People's Republic and in the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye region. There is no need to talk about any really mass participation yet.But from the state budget for the Cossacks, a lot of money was allocated and allocated, and this topic is supported at the state level. Nevertheless, despite the expectations that the Cossacks will take an active part in the campaign to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine (not to mention the issue of liberating the territory of the DPR and LPR from Ukrainian occupation), the level of participation does not even reach 2014. Apparently in the conditions of hostilities there are some more important events.
But there were many stories that as soon as the liberation of Donbass began, huge detachments of Cossacks would go to help Donbass. So where are they?
