Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] While I was away, I somehow missed the twist of the "Slavyan" case.
The plot is like this. Norwegian citizen Yan Petrovsky, aka “Slav”, came to fight in the Donbass in 2014 as part of the notorious DSHRG “Rusich”, which in 2014, among other things, acted as part of the RRT “Batman” of Alexander Bednov (aka “Batman”). DShRG "Rusich" even then was full of various far-right and even outright Nazis. Then the notorious Alexei Milchakov was also a member of it. Petrovsky, who lived in Norway from 2004 to 2014, says he has been a Russian nationalist and patriot since childhood.
Aleksandr Bednov was a unit commander for the Russian separatists who was, along with his security detail, murdered in an arrest attempt in early 2015. It is thought that Wagner operators performed the assault. See that story here.
The finest hour of the DShRG "Rusich" happened on September 5, 2014, when the fighters of "Rusich" caught a column of the Nazi battalion "Aidar" on the highway and jammed more than 30 Nazis there along with equipment. Almost everyone has seen the video and photos of this defeat. There was also "Slavyan", who, like Milchakov, became famous in photographs with the corpses of murdered Ukrainian Nazis.
This is the link, so to speak.
Recently, Petrovsky, who has been actively involved in the SVO from the first days and who has a residence permit in Norway, went with his wife to rest in Finland (!), where he was received by local policemen and put in jail. According to reports, representatives of the SBU came there demanding the extradition of Petrovsky for the events of 2014-2015. In the process, as they say, "Petrovsky beat up some SBU officer there." DShRG "Rusich" is demanding that the Russian Foreign Ministry deal with Petrovsky's case and prevent extradition, threatening to dump him from the front if Petrovsky is not protected from extradition. Petrovsky has been in a Finnish prison since July.
In fact, Petrovsky, of course, set himself up, clearly not from a great mind. It is necessary to travel to those countries where they cannot detain and extradite, especially it is not necessary to travel to NATO countries and those associated with them. And now it all fell on the Foreign Ministry.
Nevertheless, it is necessary to pull him out, because there is a far from zero probability that he will be extradited to the Ukrainian Nazis, and they will certainly recoup him for the defeat of the Aidar column in 2014. It is unlikely that after extradition he will live to see the end of the war.