White Supremacists Lead New Wave of Foreign Fighters
A new Soufan Center report, co-authored by Middlebury Institute Professor Jason Blazakis, director of the Institute’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, shows a growing number of foreign fighters who are right-wing extremists and white supremacists traveling to Ukraine to fight for either pro-Ukrainian or pro-Russian forces. “The bulk of those foreign fighters are coming from the near region,” Blazakis shared with Voice of America, pointing to 800 fighters from Belarus and hundreds more coming from Germany, Georgia, Serbia and dozens of other countries across Europe. “That’s, in some ways, not too different than what you saw with ISIS.”