From Neo-Nazi to militant: The foreign fighters in Ukraine who Australia's laws won't stop
By Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Suzanne Dredge, and Michael Workman, ABC Investigations
When Australian former Neo-Nazi and registered gun owner Ethan Tilling flew into Brisbane this year, he was returning under the radar of Australian authorities with newfound combat experience from a brutal and forgotten war.
Mr Tilling, who was until recently a member of the Nazi group Right Wing Resistance, had spent the Australian spring in the bitter cold of Eastern Ukraine firing Kalashnikovs, rocket launchers and grenades at Russian-backed separatists.
The 23-year-old former soldier from Brisbane is one of two Australian ex-Defence Force personnel identified by the ABC who have joined thousands of ultranationalists flocking from across the world to take up arms in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbass.
Read more at: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-01/foreign-fighters-return-to-australia-with-military-training/9696784
It's a bit like many wars since the Spanish Civil War, you get a cross section of persons from different countries fighting.
