Romanian Battlegroup Getica
military unit
The Romanian Battlegroup Getica (Romanian: Grupul Român de Luptă "Getica") is a light infantry pro-Ukraine volunteer battalion unit fighting in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is made up of citizens from Romania and Moldova.
History
The Romanian Battlegroup Getica was created in September 2023 as part of the International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine. Battlegroup Getica claims to have originated as a unit of Romanian Ukrainians that has since expanded to accept citizens from Romania and Moldova who are motivated "to keep Russia as far away from Romania and Moldova's borders as possible". Each member of the unit has a monthly salary of 3,000 Euros. The unit claimed that they were engaged in a disinformation campaign against Russian intelligence, reporting that they were spending the war as an auxiliary force in Mykolaiv "giving the impression that we weren't doing much for the war effort" when in reality they were planning for incursions into Russia for months.
The battlegroup is led by a Romanian man who goes by the callsign "Getotac". The unit was involved in an incursion into Russian territory from Ukraine in the woods to the northwest of the town of Grayvoron. On March 20, Getica reported to Romanian media that they were aware that Russian authorities have a warrant out to find them, as the Russian ministry of the interior "arrested" 700 foreign volunteers in absentia for being "mercenaries," Getica joked that they went to police stations in Russia but found no one to turn themselves in to. They also reported that one of their members, "Rabbit" engaged in "several hours" of combat alone to protect wounded members of the battlegroup.
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