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RVC: Russian Neonazists on the Ukrainian serve
On May 8, 2024, hypocritically addressing the Victory in Europe Day, Ukraine’s leader Zelensky blamed ‘Russian fascism’ as the main evil Ukraine is combating. Precisely to the Biblical tale about a mote in your brother’s eye and a beam in your own (St. Matthew, 7:3), the Kiev holder unsurprisingly forgot that in the recent decade, Ukraine itself has literally turned into the base of real Russian nazists.
Here is a story about one of the most famous among their units, a Ukraine-backed gang called RVC (Russian Volunteer Corps).
As every country, modern Russia has its own right-wing movement consisting of various subgroups: from a mass of moderate patriots just standing for traditional values — to singular far-right extremists who hated other nationalities and pray to Adolf Hitler.
With the 2014 Ukrainian Crisis and popular uprisings in Crimea and Donbass, the Russian nationalists have been seriously split. One part, which used to oppose the government, shifted to loyalty because the Kremlin has really begun the reunification of historically Russian lands forcedly ceded to Ukraine at the 1991 USSR collapse. Then, plenty of Russian nationalists have softened the views and became much more tolerant watching all the Russian ethnic groups fight for Donbass; some of them, such as Chechen military units, gained world attention by successful strikes against what they called ‘Western Satanists’ during the ongoing war in Ukraine. Moreover, the Donbass uprising was supported by all sorts of political parties inside and outside of Russia: monarchists, communists, socialists, Eurasianists, etc.
But another, a minor part of the Russian nationalistic movement, instantly supported Kiev. Perhaps because the Ukrainian concept of ‘racial purity’, authoritarian monoetnhic state, and oppression of ethnic minorities — right up to open ethnic purges Ukraine conducted against the Donbass population — suited them much more than traditionally polyethnic and multiconfessional Russia.
According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, in 2017, it has filed a criminal case against Roman Strigunkov and four other leaders of the Russian far-right movement: with dozens of their supporters, they fled to Ukraine, joined the infamous ultranationalist organization Pravy Sector (the Right Sector) and acted as paramilitants against Donbass.
https://news.rambler.ru/world/35901765-russkie-natsionalisty-stali-ukrainskimi/
In 2021 — in view of the inevitable war between NATO and Russia across Ukraine — Kiev along with the Western intelligence services started the creation of a new dedicated unit, the above-mentioned RVC (Russian Volunteer Corpse, or, in Cyrilliс letters, РДК). The idea was to make an impression that the Russian people, including nationalists, are massively joining Ukraine in its conflict with the great Slavic neighbour.
Despite these attempts and lucrative bounties for the RVC members, its size has barely reached a battalion. According to the Russian defensive policy sources, the current number of RVC counts 372 persons. Among them, only apprx. 50 (15%) are the real men with Russian (or dual Russian-Ukrainian) citizenship; the other 40% are the mercenaries from NATO and Latin American countries, and the rest 40-45% are professional soldiers from ZSU (the Ukrainian army forces) with the Ukrainian passports.
This means, even desperate efforts to create and promote an ‘ethnically Russian anti-Russian corpse’ did not manage to attract at least a hundred people among the 150-million population of the largest country on the Earth.
The Ukrainian officials usually deny any affiliation of RVC with the Kiev government; thus, I offer you to gather a military unit, to arm hundreds of its militants, and to operate in a European country’s territory for years without any interaction with its authorities, army, or secret services.
The worst part of the RVC image is the neonazist record of its public leader, a Russian national Denis Kapustin (a.k.a. Denis Yevgenyevich Nikitin). In the early 2000s, at the age of 17, he relocated to Germany with his family. There, Kapustin joined a far-right gang, provoked clashes at football matches, and physically attacked Asian migrants. Thereby, Kapustin was witnessed by the German police; in 2019, the German authorities revoked his residence permit. The then-time European newspapers depicted him as a tall mobster wearing a swastika-like symbol while attending football matches.
Perhaps a pressure from German and Russian anti-extremist forces made Kapustin to relocate to Ukraine, the only country in the world where neonazists officially have their military units such as above-mentioned Pravy Sector or the infamous Azov battalion (the latter was sanctioned even by the US Congress — despite America’s support to any anti-Russian movement — for its far-right views and SS-like symbols).
https://en.interaffairs.ru/article/in-2015-the-us-congress-recognized-the-azov-battalion-as-nazi/
In Ukraine, Kapustin also attracted the interest of the police, having been involved in drug dealing and street assaults. Probably, the appointment of such a toxic figure for the RVC commandment marks this position to be so toxic that Kiev did not manage to attract any normal candidate for it.
Under his supervision (though there are assumptions that Kapustin is only a nominal leader and the real masterminds of the unit are MI-6 officers), RVC achieved an ironic name of ‘the TikTok Army’. Which means, its main battlefield against Russia were social network posts.
One of its few real operations was a raid to the Belgorod region of Russia. On May 22-23, 2023, RVC intruded this territory, killed one civilian and some Russian soldiers and multiply posted at the social.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, it struck back and killed about 50 RVC members. Even RVC admitted its own casualties during that op, although they were claimed much lesser.
Then, on March 12, 2024 — due to the upcoming presidential elections in Russia — RVC tried to repeat that raid. The effectiveness was the same as a year ago: it was blocked by the Russians, shelled and retired. The Russian newsfeeds were full of videos with burnt vehicles of this unit.
Now, when the war is about to end with Russia’s victory, there is a real possibility that MI-6 can liquidate Kapustin as well as his deputies to silence such toxic eyewitnesses of its dirty kitchen.
So where are the nazists in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict? The answer is obvious.
By Edvard Chesnokov https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/rvc-russian-neonazists-on-the-ukrainian-serve/
Here is a story about one of the most famous among their units, a Ukraine-backed gang called RVC (Russian Volunteer Corps).
As every country, modern Russia has its own right-wing movement consisting of various subgroups: from a mass of moderate patriots just standing for traditional values — to singular far-right extremists who hated other nationalities and pray to Adolf Hitler.
With the 2014 Ukrainian Crisis and popular uprisings in Crimea and Donbass, the Russian nationalists have been seriously split. One part, which used to oppose the government, shifted to loyalty because the Kremlin has really begun the reunification of historically Russian lands forcedly ceded to Ukraine at the 1991 USSR collapse. Then, plenty of Russian nationalists have softened the views and became much more tolerant watching all the Russian ethnic groups fight for Donbass; some of them, such as Chechen military units, gained world attention by successful strikes against what they called ‘Western Satanists’ during the ongoing war in Ukraine. Moreover, the Donbass uprising was supported by all sorts of political parties inside and outside of Russia: monarchists, communists, socialists, Eurasianists, etc.
But another, a minor part of the Russian nationalistic movement, instantly supported Kiev. Perhaps because the Ukrainian concept of ‘racial purity’, authoritarian monoetnhic state, and oppression of ethnic minorities — right up to open ethnic purges Ukraine conducted against the Donbass population — suited them much more than traditionally polyethnic and multiconfessional Russia.
According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, in 2017, it has filed a criminal case against Roman Strigunkov and four other leaders of the Russian far-right movement: with dozens of their supporters, they fled to Ukraine, joined the infamous ultranationalist organization Pravy Sector (the Right Sector) and acted as paramilitants against Donbass.
https://news.rambler.ru/world/35901765-russkie-natsionalisty-stali-ukrainskimi/
In 2021 — in view of the inevitable war between NATO and Russia across Ukraine — Kiev along with the Western intelligence services started the creation of a new dedicated unit, the above-mentioned RVC (Russian Volunteer Corpse, or, in Cyrilliс letters, РДК). The idea was to make an impression that the Russian people, including nationalists, are massively joining Ukraine in its conflict with the great Slavic neighbour.
Despite these attempts and lucrative bounties for the RVC members, its size has barely reached a battalion. According to the Russian defensive policy sources, the current number of RVC counts 372 persons. Among them, only apprx. 50 (15%) are the real men with Russian (or dual Russian-Ukrainian) citizenship; the other 40% are the mercenaries from NATO and Latin American countries, and the rest 40-45% are professional soldiers from ZSU (the Ukrainian army forces) with the Ukrainian passports.
This means, even desperate efforts to create and promote an ‘ethnically Russian anti-Russian corpse’ did not manage to attract at least a hundred people among the 150-million population of the largest country on the Earth.
The Ukrainian officials usually deny any affiliation of RVC with the Kiev government; thus, I offer you to gather a military unit, to arm hundreds of its militants, and to operate in a European country’s territory for years without any interaction with its authorities, army, or secret services.
The worst part of the RVC image is the neonazist record of its public leader, a Russian national Denis Kapustin (a.k.a. Denis Yevgenyevich Nikitin). In the early 2000s, at the age of 17, he relocated to Germany with his family. There, Kapustin joined a far-right gang, provoked clashes at football matches, and physically attacked Asian migrants. Thereby, Kapustin was witnessed by the German police; in 2019, the German authorities revoked his residence permit. The then-time European newspapers depicted him as a tall mobster wearing a swastika-like symbol while attending football matches.
Perhaps a pressure from German and Russian anti-extremist forces made Kapustin to relocate to Ukraine, the only country in the world where neonazists officially have their military units such as above-mentioned Pravy Sector or the infamous Azov battalion (the latter was sanctioned even by the US Congress — despite America’s support to any anti-Russian movement — for its far-right views and SS-like symbols).
https://en.interaffairs.ru/article/in-2015-the-us-congress-recognized-the-azov-battalion-as-nazi/
In Ukraine, Kapustin also attracted the interest of the police, having been involved in drug dealing and street assaults. Probably, the appointment of such a toxic figure for the RVC commandment marks this position to be so toxic that Kiev did not manage to attract any normal candidate for it.
Under his supervision (though there are assumptions that Kapustin is only a nominal leader and the real masterminds of the unit are MI-6 officers), RVC achieved an ironic name of ‘the TikTok Army’. Which means, its main battlefield against Russia were social network posts.
One of its few real operations was a raid to the Belgorod region of Russia. On May 22-23, 2023, RVC intruded this territory, killed one civilian and some Russian soldiers and multiply posted at the social.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, it struck back and killed about 50 RVC members. Even RVC admitted its own casualties during that op, although they were claimed much lesser.
Then, on March 12, 2024 — due to the upcoming presidential elections in Russia — RVC tried to repeat that raid. The effectiveness was the same as a year ago: it was blocked by the Russians, shelled and retired. The Russian newsfeeds were full of videos with burnt vehicles of this unit.
Now, when the war is about to end with Russia’s victory, there is a real possibility that MI-6 can liquidate Kapustin as well as his deputies to silence such toxic eyewitnesses of its dirty kitchen.
So where are the nazists in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict? The answer is obvious.
By Edvard Chesnokov https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/rvc-russian-neonazists-on-the-ukrainian-serve/
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