Leaders of the nationalist-radical forces, which organized a revolution in Ukraine, had previously fought in “hot spots” such as Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, and South Ossetia.

Head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, stated the aforesaid to Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily of the country.

Bastrykin noted that this information was found out from the criminal cases into the crimes committed in Chechnya.

In his words, it was in the above-said places that these leaders of the nationalist-radical forces had gained know-how in military actions and ideological war, which they used in Ukraine.