Belarusian 'militants' from Donetsk Basin ordinary airsoft players?

The Ukrainian mass media have published photos found in social networks: the things that  separatists in Donetsk Basin are proud of. A Belarusian citizen was noticed in one of the pictures. That is why Belarusian mass media started reporting that a Homel inhabitant was fighting on separatists’ side.

Euroradio has found the young man and his two friends’ profiles (they were in the pictures with the same weapons). We phoned one of his friends in Belarus – all of them are in Homel now. He said:

"These are not real weapons - we use them for airsoft. We have a team and play together.”

Soldiers have confirmed that those were airsoft weapons.  There are a lot of pictures of people with such weapons on the website of Homel airsoft clubs. One of the clubs is called Rusich. According to the information from its website, the club ‘uses ammunition looking like the ammunition used by the Russian FSB’.

Why were Ukrainian mass media mistaken about the Belarusians? It may be explained by the fact that we found Antimaidan notes and a video with separatist Babai in some airsoft players’ pages.

The man Euroradio talked to has already deleted all information from his page.

Euroradio has found Kramatorsk airsoft players among mutual friends on VKontakte. Their club is called Strikeball Donbass. Antiterror. One of its leaders was photographed with a Ukrainian police car without number plates.

Belarusians do fight on terrorists’ side in Ukraine. A Belsat cameraman took a video of Homel inhabitant Anatol Malchanau. He started waging war on Ukraine in Crimea and was awarded for it. He wants to get a medal for ‘the seizure of Kiev’ now.

"I want to live in a single country. It should be a single Slavonic family like in Belarus. I am against these division and oligarchs’ wars,” the Homel inhabitant said.