These groups don't need political success when they are already subsumed into the apparatus of the military, as the sources I have linked to also point out.
[0] seems to be the sole source of this, and even it doesn’t make any claim of power within the military outside of being protected. And that is ignoring that there are a lot of words like "ostensibly" or "seemingly" when explaining why the author is correct. Which brings us back to 2%.
Semaphor|4 years ago
[0]: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/the-azov-...