The ex-Minister of Defense of the “DPR” Igor Girkin (Strelkov) called the leaders of the “Nevsky” battalion “military swindlers”, to whom he had previously advertised.
In a post titled “I gave birth to you, I will kill you,” Strelkov writes :
“Readers of my page will remember that in September last year I was personally involved in the creation of an “advertisement” for this unit as the alleged chief of staff of the battalion. <…> And now I – faced with the fact that many volunteers consider the Nevsky as a desirable option for their dispatch to the front, <…> I am forced not only to disavow my "advertising", but also to make an appeal DON'T BELIEVE MILITARY CROOKS."
According to Strelkov, the battalion does not have “even one combat-ready company,” and the battalion commander “is engaged in political and commercial machinations, together with friends from the Night Wolves biker club.”
According to the founder of the battalion, Alexei Vereshchagin, the Nevsky detachment is a separate battalion-tactical group, reinforced by its own armored group and artillery. The squad was founded on October 14, 2022.