Different quote:
More than half of the regiment’s members speak Russian and come from eastern Ukraine, including cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.
The article also mentions foreign (naming one Swedish) members and the likeness towards 'nordic' symbology.
The Russian word for Vikings is vajgari, who created the first powerful northern Russian dynasty, the Ruriks from Novgorod. Which superseded the Kievan Rus.
Anyone can connect those dots? It is very confusing to me, looking as if these neo-nazi insurgents VVP set out to cleanse were hardcore Aryan Russians, opposing the Kiev government.
The emperor is truly naked.