Kaminski Brigade, also known as Waffen-Sturm-Brigade RONA, was a collaborationist formation composed of Russian nationals from the territory of the Lokot Autonomy in Axis-occupied areas of the RSFSR, Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. It was known for loose discipline, drunkenness and extremely brutality, which shocked even hardened SS veterans.
Brigade's commanding officers during the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising, August 1944
The RONA insignia
Bronislav Kaminski and personnel of the Volksheer-Brigade Kaminski operation "Frühlingsfest", Belarus, May 1944
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 101I 280 1075 11A, Russland, Brigadekommandeur Borislaw Kaminski
Collaboration in the German-occupied Soviet Union
A large number of Soviet citizens of various ethnicities collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. It is estimated that the number of Soviet collaborators with the Nazi German military was around 1 million.
Cossacks in the Wehrmacht under the Swastika flag, 1942, southwestern Russia
Ukrainian Liberation Army oath to Adolf Hitler
German-Ukrainian parade in Stanislaviv, 1941