Court says no to extradition

A court in Ukraine on Wednesday rejected an extradition request for an American who served in the country’s rightwing paramilitary units, dealing a blow to U.S. law enforcement agencies seeking to clamp down on Americans traveling to Ukraine to get battle experience with farright militias there. The American, Craig Lang, an Army veteran and North Carolina native, had been charged in the United States in connection with a double murder in Florida, but his case drew attention to the risk of Americans fighting for farright groups in Ukraine and other global hot spots.

Experts on hate crime have long been raising alarms about transnational links to overseas military training in the far right.