2014.5.24 A source at the Ukrainian special services showed me – on the condition of anonymity – documents evidencing Girkin’s direct role in recruiting Crimean Ukrainians for the war in Syria during 2013./ Marat Musin/ Olga Kuligina/ FSB第5局
2014.5.20November2013, Girkin is taskedto solve a hard problem.He must find a way tostop a criminal investigation by his former FSB colleagues into the mercenary work ofRussian fighters in Syria. The fighters–all ex military,some recommended byGirkin personally–are employed bythe Slavonic Corps