Meanwhile, Blinken tells Russia’s Lavrov the U.S. would support Ukraine ‘for as long as it takes’
The men in the video look suspiciously tidy for a sabotage unit, their uniforms spotless despite purportedly having staged a cross-border raid into Russia. There is copious yellow tape on their uniforms and assault rifles to identify them as Ukrainian fighters, perhaps far more than is safe or necessary.
Two videos appeared online early Thursday showing white-clad fighters standing outside a post office and a nursing station in the border village of Lyubechanye. In addition to their automatic rifles, the men are carrying flags of the Russian Volunteer Corps, a group of ethnic Russians who have been fighting on the Ukrainian side since the start of a proxy conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas region nine years ago that has since escalated into full-scale war.Mr.
Though the fighter didn’t give his name, he was identified by independent Russian media outlets as Denis Kapustin, a prominent Russian nationalist who in the past has admitted to co-operating with Russia’s security services. “The story about the Ukrainian sabotage group in Russia is a classic deliberate provocation. Russia wants to scare its people to justify the attack on another country and the growing poverty after the year of war,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, wrote on Twitter. “The partisan movement in Russia is getting stronger and more aggressive. Fear your partisans,” he added.
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