Behind the Masks in Ukraine, Many Faces of Rebellion.
By C. J. CHIVERS and NOAH SNEIDERMAY 3, 2014.

＞「給与は貰っていないからサービスだという。」　？

Several fighters shook their heads at the idea that they had been paid by Russia, by oligarchs or by anybody else.

“This is not a job,” said one fighter, Dmitry. “It is a service.”.

＞「シリアと同じ状況で、一般市民が敵になれば外国人が入り込んで暴動を装ってもダメだろうね。」

Throughout the week, as Ukrainian soldiers sometimes pressed closer, he chuckled at the claims by officials in Kiev and the West that his operations had been guided by Russian military intelligence officers.

There is no Russian master, he said. “We have no Muscovites here,” he said. “I have experience enough.”.

That experience, he and his fighters say, includes four years as a Soviet small-unit commander in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in the 1980s.