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Union Leader Eddie Dempsey's Controversial Ukraine Visit Revealed

1/16/2026

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Eddie Dempsey, general secretary of Britain's railway union the RMT, joined a 2015 visit to occupied Ukraine.
During the visit, he chanted pro-Russian slogans and posed with a Communist Party flag.
Video evidence shows him at an anti-fascist event organized by the Luhansk Communist Party for the Prizrak Brigade in the Donbas region invaded by Russia in 2014, described by Dempsey as a "humanitarian convoy".

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Eddie Dempsey, general secretary of Britain's railway union the RMT, joined a 2015 visit to occupied Ukraine.
During the visit, he chanted pro-Russian slogans and posed with a Communist Party flag.
Video evidence shows him at an anti-fascist event organized by the Luhansk Communist Party for the Prizrak Brigade in the Donbas region invaded by Russia in 2014, described by Dempsey as a "humanitarian convoy".