Controversial Ukraine National Guard fighting unit was praised and castigated on Twitter for their video showing them loading bullets into a magazine after dipping them in pig fat to be used against Russian allied Chechen fighters.
Russia and its allies from the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics launched a military operation in Ukraine on Thursday aimed at "demilitarising and denazifying" the country in the face of a security crisis of a scale unseen in Europe in decades.