Svenska nationalister rekryteras till Ukraina?

Vladimir Putin called him derogatory 'The Swede'. "The idea that the Russian president has pissed off to me I find pretty cool," smiles Mikael Skillt (39). The Swedish sniper fought as volunteers Ukrainian side in the ultra-right Azov battalion. "I've been through the whole tour," said Skillt, referring to the battlefields he has seen, including that one, very famous in Ilovaisk.Twintig 'hits' he counts these are the twenty separatists Skillt killed with his Remington 700 sniper rifle. "My furthest fatal shot was from 1400 meters. What I think if such a person goes down? Nicely, which is exhausted. "

I met the heavily tattooed marksman on day 1 of a journey through Ukraine in a restaurant in Kiev, where Skillt order light and vegetarian dishes. In Ukraine, where he will remain, the Swede is a celebrity. "A hero is not me, those are the guys who gave their lives for their country."

"I had a few years before I came to Kiev in Sweden, representatives of the Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda met at a conference and had become friends with them. When the fighting broke out on the Maidan, they sent me pictures of victims of snipers. I went out of service in 2009, where I was trained as a sniper. Since then I worked for a construction company and traveled all over the country. When I saw pictures of the Maidan, I thought: here is written history, I want to be there, I'm going to give the snipers shooting at my friends a taste of their own medicine.

"But I came too late, fighting in Kiev had already passed. I decided to stay and the youth of the Maidan, who had fought with sticks and rods, to train in close quarters combat. That proved short time later, when war broke out in the Donbas, to have been a good choice. Because the Ukrainian army was completely useless, really totally useless, especially the senior officers, were formed volunteer battalions.

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"What they brought was much courage and the willingness to die for their country. With their institution jacked up the volunteers on the morale of the army, which lost at a loss. I admit, for nearly half Azov then consisted of extreme right-wing fighters. I myself was in Sweden been a Nazi, so I came out of that extreme right-wing corner, but I'm over the years shifted to a more conservative nationalist position - which many Europeans still as extreme right will show the way. The Maidan was a conservative nationalist revolution, so it's not so strange that boys cherish such sympathies. But nowadays Azov consists of around 2400 men and the number of Nazis will still about fifty amounts. The Russians call the Azov 'Nazi killers, but that's Kremlin propaganda.

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"Chechens torture their prisoners and I do not know what they did with the Russians. I want to have nothing to do with it. The Russians are terrified of those who hear "Allahu Akbar" and withdraw immediately. They remember too well what they have experienced during the Chechen wars. The separatists are anyway not worth anything in the fight. I've seen them in their pants slopes of fear. They were mainly concerned with booze and prostitutes.

"How do you go to the front? You listen to music in the car, jokes with each other and as the front gets closer, everyone is silent. You enter a tunnel correctly, you start to focus, concentrate. And when the battle begins you get into work mode. You notice that shed all those training hours off.

"I was never scared, maybe once, at the battle of Mariupol, when I thought it had beaten my last hour. But that fear but kept a few seconds. Then I was again super concentrated: you see everything clearer, everything is magnified, goes into slow motion. You act very fast and instinctive. I can think of those hours are every detail, remember every face.

In Ukraine he is known by everyone. Especially in the eastern regions controlled by pro-Russian. Mike Skillt, Swedish, 47 year old, a professional sniper. He claims to have killed at least 150 people "to work." It 'a mercenary, though he prefers the word "contractor". It has a bounty of one million dollars on his head and is currently one of the men most wanted by the Russian army. But it does not hide, does not use the balaclava, balaclavas: we meet to drink tea in a cafe in the square Maidan in Kiev and shows no problems its Facebook page and Twitter with photos and comments. Everything in the open, so that is the question that the complex propaganda machine that regulates the war between Ukraine and Russia is serving the sniper to show his teeth.

När HD och Sydsvenskan intervjuade honom i höstas berättade han att uppehållit sig både i Europa och i Ukraina och att det varit så enkelt att hålla sig undan att han till och med varit hemma i Sverige under ett par tillfällen.

– De få gånger jag behöver visa mitt pass görs det inga slagningar på det, bara en nickning och allt är bra.

Flera gånger under sin tid på rymmen har han gäckat polisen genom att lägga ut villospår på Facebook om var han befunnit sig. Men i november förra året tog turen slut.

Via ett chattprogram berättar nu 32-åringen varför han tror att han till slut greps av ukrainsk säkerhetstjänst på ett café i centrala Lviv i slutet av november:

"Dom avlyssnade en väns nummer".

Svenska myndigheter har varit förtegna om möjligheterna att få honom utlämnad till Sverige, och hänvisat till förundersökningssekretess.

Men enligt 32-åringen själv är en utlämning nära förestående:

"Nästa måndag går tidsfristen för min överklagan ut och då skickas ett dokument till Sverige där utlämning beviljas och att de har tillåtelse att hämta mig."

32-åringen skriver att han inte överklagat utan "tvärtom påskyndat utlämningen" eftersom förhållandena där han sitter inlåst är "otroligt dåliga".

"Hade jag inte haft vänner här som ger mig mat och rent vatten genom administrationen så hade jag inte levt nu", skriver han.