page_title: Right Sector
section_title: Ukrainian Volunteer Corps
hierarchical_section_title: Right Sector / Paramilitary operations / Ukrainian Volunteer Corps
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Групове фото Добровольчого українського корпусу (ДУК)English: Right Sector's Ukrainian Volunteer Corps (UVC).
context_page_description: Right Sector is a Ukrainian nationalist political party and paramilitary movement, generally described as far-right. It originated in November 2013 as a paramilitary confederation of several radical nationalist organizations at the Euromaidan revolt in Kiev, where its street fighters participated in clashes with riot police. The coalition became a political party on 22 March 2014, at which time it claimed to have roughly 10,000 members.
  Founding groups included Trident, led by Dmytro Yarosh and Andriy Tarasenko; the Ukrainian National Assembly–Ukrainian National Self-Defense, a political/paramilitary organization. Other founding groups included the Social-National Assembly and its Patriot of Ukraine paramilitary wing, White Hammer, and Carpathian Sich. White Hammer was expelled in March 2014, and in the following months Patriot of Ukraine left the organization along with many UNA-UNSO members.
  Right Sector's political ideology has been described as nationalist, neofascist, or far right. Right Sector was the second-most mentioned political group in Russian media during the first half of 2014; Russian state TV depicted it as neo-Nazi because of its far-right, extremist views.
context_section_description: Right Sector has its own volunteer battalion that is fighting in the War in Donbass. It was formed late April 2014. On 19 July 2014 Right Sector said it was ready to contribute 5,000 people to fight, if the military provided suitable combat equipment.  Right Sector lost twelve fighters when ambushed outside Donetsk in August 2014. Yarosh, the group's leader, vowed his group would avenge the deaths. On 17 August 2014 Right Sector accused the Interior Ministry of harbouring counterrevolutionary forces seeking to destroy the Ukrainian volunteer movement. It said that Deputy Interior Minister Vladimir Yevdokimov's followers among the police had illegally searched or detained dozens of Right Sector volunteers and confiscated weapons they had taken in combat. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov replied, saying that he had already submitted a request to President Poroshenko that Yevdokimov be dismissed.  Right Sector's military unit includes about fifty citizens of Russia and Belarus. Members come from all parts of Ukraine, including the Donbass and Crimea; Russia; other former Soviet republics; and Western countries.  In December 2015, group leader Dmytro Yarosh announced that the 5th and 8th battalions, and the medical battalion, would be incorporated into the Armed Forces of Ukraine following his departure from Right Sector. The UVC, if possible, would become part of the National Guard of Ukraine and will in the near future report to the Ministry of Internal Affairs or would be merged as part of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.
caption: Fighters of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps (DUK)
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