# Ukraine has over 100 nationalist battalions, French expert says

https://mins.news/en/item/23810

- TASS, 2026-08-17 03:35 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2173967

> French expert, historian and Donbass war correspondent Laurent Braillard says Ukrainian authorities have deployed more than 100 ideological and special battalions since 2014, including foreign mercenaries, neo-Nazis and criminals. He counted the equivalent of 106 battalions across 85 units and described the structure as highly tangled.

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