Anti-Russian fighters conducted a cross-border attack in the Belgorod region of southern Russia. Read more at straitstimes.com.
who had participated earlier this week in the most intense fighting inside Russia’s borders since the invasion, gathered the foreign and local press in an undisclosed location on Wednesday to celebrate, to taunt the Kremlin and to show off what they called “military trophies” from their incursion into their native land: Russia.
It was the rhetoric of a dissident freedom fighter, but there was a discordant note that emerged as clearly as the neo-Nazi Black Sun patch on the uniform of one of the soldiers: Mr Kapustin and prominent members of the armed group he leads, the Russian Volunteer Corps, openly espouse far-right views. In fact, German officials and humanitarian groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, have identified Mr Kapustin as a neo-Nazi.
The fact that the group has garnered attention for its operation and revived coverage of the group’s ties to neo-Nazis is an awkward development for Ukraine’s government, particularly since President Vladimir Putin of Russia has justified his invasion on the false claim of fighting neo-Nazis and made it a regular theme of Kremlin propaganda.
In reality, far-right groups in Ukraine are a small minority, and Ukraine has denied any involvement in the Russian Volunteer Corps or any role in fighting on the Russian side of the border. But Mr Kapustin said that his group “definitely got a lot of encouragement” from Ukrainian authorities. The Russian Volunteer Corps also claimed credit for two incidents in the Russian border region of Bryansk in March and April.
At the news conference on Wednesday, Mr Kapustin affirmed that his group was not controlled by the Ukrainian army but said that the military had wished the fighters “good luck”. There had been “nothing further than encouragement” from the Ukrainian part, he said.
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