 On a sunny autumnal morning outside Kiev, a group of 20 Russian citizens fired assault rifles and machine guns at training targets. Soon, they say they will be firing them at the Russian army. They are part of the Siberian battalion, a new unit of Ukraine's international legion. Most of its 50 members are recruited from the indigenous peoples of Siberia. Those who have joined say they are fighting against Russia's imperialism both in Ukraine and in their homelands in Baryatia, as well as some of the other Russian regions that are home to indigenous peoples have become notorious in Ukraine for providing a disproportionately high amount of soldiers for Russia's war effort. Civil Society Group Free Baryatia Foundation has said that the drive to mobilize a disproportionate number of Baryats was a political choice, as the Kremlin saw Baryatia as having less of a risk of anti-government protests than Moscow or St. Petersburg. Not all of the recruits are from Siberia, some were from other parts of Russia. The pain you see is the same as the other victims who are trying to kill and rape my country. I am scared to face it, so I prefer my fear for my own life. I remember that I have to do something, I have to do something, so that I can do it through my own actions and not through my own actions. I support these guys in the struggle for the freedom of their people, because I think that it will help them to get rid of this empire, so that the prison will be destroyed and the people will not live under a full-fledged magnet, but live for themselves, develop, flourish and so that no one will be agitated. I don't believe that they did all the crimes of the war in Baryatia, in Asia. The Russian media, it is beneficial for them to put us, the Buryatia, the Yakutians, the Tuvins, the barbarians, just barbarians. They, starting with the Tsarist Russia, when they colonized us, they destroyed our culture, our language, our traditions. They are just doing the russification. We are tired of this, just understand us. We live poor, we take everything, but we are not even gasified, it is elementary. How much can you believe in it? Russia, as it was in the Tsarist, as it was in the USSR, is now left with Putin. We are already tired of this. For me, I am tired of this. It just depends on her. I want to be independent for my own republic, to decide my own destiny.