The forgotten front: Dutch fighters in Ukraine
Vanaf 2012 attention was mainly focused on Westerners who joined massively with jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq. Much less attention was paid to another conflict: the war in eastern Ukraine. According to the Americans, the attraction fits in with the worldwide advance of right-wing extremism. Gijs Weijenberg and Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn zoom in on – and identified – Dutch travelers.