With the “Free Russia” militiamen on their return from their incursion into Belgorod

2023-05-24 21:45:16

By Cyrille Louis

Published
yesterday at 8:12 p.m.
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Update yesterday at 9:45 p.m.

Members of the RDK and Russia’s Freedom Legion pose at an undisclosed location near the Russian-Ukrainian border in front of a captured Russian tank. Albert Lores

REPORTAGE – The armed group carried out a spectacular incursion into the Russian region of Belgorod.

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First do, then tell. After their spectacular foray into Russia’s Belgorod region, the Svoboda Rossii (“Russian Freedom”) Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) proudly posed for the press on Wednesday around an armored BTR model vehicle withdrawn from the enemy. These two armed groups, formed a year ago with the stated objective of liberating Ukraine and then bringing down the regime of Vladimir Putin, say they acted on their own initiative. During their press conference, organized on a military base near the border with Russia, Denis Kapustin, the ultranationalist and white supremacist leader of the RDK militia, evaded insistent questions about his links with Ukrainian military intelligence. “What is certainhe smiles, is that we received a lot of encouragement.»

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