Ukraine's [[media]] have been noticeably silent on this subject....[A]lthough Ukraine is emphatically not run by fascists, far-right extremists seem to be making inroads by other means, as in the country's [[police]] department. Ukraine's public is grossly under-informed about this. The question is, why doesn't anyone want to tell them?
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Ukraine's [[media]] have been noticeably silent on this subject....[A]lthough Ukraine is emphatically not run by fascists, far-right extremists seem to be making inroads by other means, as in the country's [[police]] department. Ukraine's public is grossly under-informed about this. The question is, why doesn't anyone want to tell them?}}
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A year after the 2014 coup the CIA secretly started to train Ukrainian paramilitary groups for an insurgency against an eventual Russian invasion:
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{{Cquote|The [[CIA]] is overseeing a secret intensive training program in the [[U.S.]] for elite Ukrainian [[special operations forces]] and other [[intelligence]] personnel, according to five former intelligence and [[national security]] officials familiar with the initiative. The program, which started in 2015, is based at an undisclosed facility in the Southern U.S., according to some of those officials.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-trained-ukrainian-paramilitaries-may-take-central-role-if-russia-invades-185258008.html</ref>}}