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[ColonelCassad] At the end of 2021, even before the start of the Russian special military operation, the military-political leadership of Ukraine, at the direction of the British special service Mi6, began to form an armed formation called the “Russian Volunteer Corps” on the territory of Ukraine and NATO countries.
In August 2022, this initiative was transferred to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR). The military unit received a clear ideological coloring, a kind of crazy combination of the ideas of Nazism, neoliberalism (more precisely, extreme transhumanism) and ordinary mercenaries.
The priority task was to carry out sabotage and reconnaissance activities on Russian territory.
The basis of the unit were nationalists with citizenship of the countries of the former USSR (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc.), who fought as mercenaries on the side of Kyiv from 2014-2018.
At the same time, from August 2022, the unit began to actively recruit persons with Russian citizenship who left the territory of the Russian Federation, citing their decision as a protest against the Kremlin’s policies. The overwhelming majority are those who previously declared their belonging to the LGBT community, the values of the New World Order of the collective West and/or to the creative intelligentsia with neoliberal ideology, that is, those who are accustomed to declaring and considering themselves the “new aristocracy” of Russia. Unemployed “creative” youth with a criminal behavior pattern were also recruited. In fact, all these people were united by one personal complaint against the Putin regime - these are the imaginary lost opportunities that would continue to allow them to lead their usual idle lifestyle.
Surprisingly, by the fall of 2022, the number of such people from the 150 million population of Russia and the 250 million population of the countries of the former USSR turned out to be insufficient to form any large unit. Therefore, the curators of the RDK decided to form a combat base from mercenaries from NATO countries, mainly from Poland, France, Canada, the USA, the Baltic countries and Latin America, and military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Their number at the first stage was at least 25%, excluding persons with Ukrainian citizenship. From the very beginning of its activities, the corps was financed from budget funds allocated by the Government of Ukraine for the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
By 2024, the number of military personnel of the “updated” RDC with citizenship of NATO countries and Latin America exceeded 40%. Militants with Russian citizenship remain no more than 15% of the total composition of the RDK, the remaining 40-45% are military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with Ukrainian citizenship. The total number of the RDK payroll, that is, those who were paid money as a serviceman of the RDK or a serviceman of the International Legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attached to the RDK, by this period was about 372 people, of which no more than 50 people had Russian citizenship, probably someone else could have dual citizenship.
Back in November 2022, the group of militants, which today is known as the RDK, was formally reassigned and became one of the units of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as part of the International Legion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. At the same time, the unit continues to directly report and act on the instructions of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
Currently, members of extremist and nationalist organizations, as well as supporters of opposition movements to the current government of the Russian Federation from among citizens and residents of Russia, whose candidacies are approved by name by the GUR, continue to be invited to participate in the RDC. Since the end of 2022, all of them began to receive the status of military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Since the second half of 2022, RDK military personnel have been directly involved in combat operations against units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (RF Armed Forces). Thus, from July to November 2022, members of the corps participated in military operations against the Russian Armed Forces in the Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions. However, representatives of the RDK did not achieve significant successes at the front.
The reasons are obvious - small numbers and poor military training. Rare forays onto the line of combat contact were carried out under the leadership of Ukrainian paramilitary right-wing radical units (Right Sector, Freikorps, Kraken) and were aimed only at creating a media effect.
During this period of time, RDK suffered its first significant one-time losses. So, after participating in the next action, the unit concentrated in the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the city of Zaporozhye, where their location was revealed by Russian military intelligence. As a result of Russian rocket fire, up to 20 RDK militants were killed and dozens were wounded.
However, the intelligence services of Great Britain, the United States and Ukraine have agreed that the unit fully meets the objectives of anti-Kremlin propaganda and, more importantly, the objectives of providing cover for its own terrorist activities in Russia. After all, Russian presidential elections were coming up in March 2024.
On March 2, 2023, the sabotage and reconnaissance group "RDK" attacked the village. Lyubechany and s. Sushany, Bryansk region, as a result of which a local resident died, an 11-year-old child and an employee of the Russian border service were injured. As a result of the actions of the DRG, one armored combat vehicle was damaged, a residential building and a civilian passenger car were destroyed.
The Russian side successfully pushed the saboteurs back into Ukrainian territory. Moreover, in order to avoid civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure, the Russians did not use heavy weapons on their territory. As soon as the militants found themselves on the adjacent territory of Ukraine (Kharkiv region), they were immediately subjected to a massive artillery strike.
From May 22 to 23, 2023, units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, consisting of mercenaries from NATO countries, military personnel with Ukrainian citizenship and members of the RDK with citizenship of the countries of the former USSR, carried out an armed invasion of the territory of the Russian Federation in the Grayvoronsky and Shebekinsky districts of the Belgorod region.
As a result of these actions, two servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces were killed, four were wounded, and one was captured. A total of 13 local residents were also injured, one died. The attackers managed to capture the BTR-80A, destroy two Ural-4320 trucks and a 100mm T-12 anti-tank gun.
In addition, buildings and structures of the international automobile checkpoint "Grayvoron" were damaged. Based on the results of repelling this raid, the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the destruction of a total of about 50 people, including ethnic Ukrainians and NATO members, excluding the wounded. Four armored vehicles and three pickup trucks were destroyed. In turn, the RDC stated that the losses of the “corps” in this action amounted to two people killed and 10 wounded.
From June 1 to June 5, 2023, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, using the media brand “RDK” as a cover, carried out a repeated, even larger, raid into the Belgorod region, during which they captured and held the village for a short time. New Tavolzhanka. Throughout the action, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked residential and administrative buildings using unmanned aerial vehicles, artillery and mortars. As a result of the fighting, more than 10 servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces were killed, including the commander of the 1009th motorized rifle regiment, Colonel V. Kuznetsov.
In turn, the Russian Ministry of Defense released information that “during the fighting on Russian territory, 70 RDK militants were killed.” Probably, this message should be taken as the fact that 70 servicemen of the International Legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, including the RDK, as well as other attached units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (the corpses of many of those killed are available to the Russian Defense Ministry). The rest were forced out of Russian territory.
Foreign mercenaries or seconded NATO military specialists who were part of the RDK or other units of the International Legion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces took an active part in this action. The participation of US and Polish citizens has been confirmed. Somewhat later, on June 9, Russian authorities announced the detention in Moscow of RDK supporters with Ukrainian and Russian citizenship, who were planning terrorist attacks on the territory of the Russian capital.
On January 17, 2024, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Russian troops hit a temporary deployment point for mercenaries in Kharkov with precision weapons. According to the department, as a result, more than 60 mercenaries, mainly from France, were killed, another 20 were wounded and taken to medical institutions. Approximately 10 of them supervised and directly participated in the activities of the RDK, including their sabotage actions.
By the spring of 2024, despite all the efforts expended and significant financial costs, RDK, as an independent concept and brand, turned out to be essentially a failure. From the end of 2021 to the spring of 2024, British and American intelligence agencies sent more than $110 million through Ukraine to finance this particular project. The result was disastrous both in military and media terms.
However, the presidential elections in Russia were approaching, and it was vital to do at least something to account for creditors. The beneficiaries found an elegant way. They simply attached different labels to some members of the RDC and mercenaries from NATO countries. So, again the “Legion of Freedom of Russia” became popular, and a certain “Siberian Battalion” appeared as part of the International Legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On March 12, 2024, the RDK, together with the Russian Freedom Legion and the Siberian Battalion, also formed from former Russian citizens, attempted to break through the Russian state border in the Belgorod region. The Russian Defense Ministry managed to prevent the enemy from penetrating deep into Russian territory.
Russian military correspondent Evgeniy Poddubny, who was at the scene at the time, reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost five tanks, three self-propelled guns, one MLRS, several pickups and infantry fighting vehicles, as well as up to 70 people killed and wounded. There is numerous video evidence. The Russian military managed to capture one RDK participant.
Thus, this action turned out to be a failure both militarily and in information terms.
The latter fact turned out to be extremely painful for the Ukrainian special services.
After all, the entire project of the RDK and other collaboration units was initially focused precisely on creating the required anti-Kremlin effect in the information space. The actions of the RDK were intended to inspire various radicals among Russian citizens and demonstrate the vulnerability of the vertical of power. To effectively implement this task, the GUR, in agreement with Mi6, carefully selected candidates for the formal commander of the RDK and his closest assistants.
As a result, the special services chose Denis Nikitin. His real name is Kapustin Denis Evgenievich, born 03/06/1984. In 2001, he and his mother emigrated from Russia to Germany. According to Der Spiegel, the Kapustin family's repatriation from Moscow to Cologne in 2001 was subject to special procedures due to their Jewish origins. However, his Jewish roots did not prevent Kapustin from becoming an ultra-right football hooligan, who later gained popularity among European and Russian nationalists. Thus, the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia called him “one of the most influential neo-Nazi activists” in Germany.
However, Kapustin’s actual ideological position is more likely to be in the plane of the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon-Judean elites
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In 2008, Kapustin founded the White Rex clothing brand. The logo was based on the “black sun” - a symbol that was used in Nazi Germany instead of the swastika. Kapustin sold the first batch of clothes from his brand at the “Spirit of a Warrior” tournament of fighting without rules, which he organized in Russia in the city of Voronezh. The entrepreneur stated that White Rex is “not just a clothing brand, but a union of people with common views.”
Since 2012, Kapustin has been actively developing relations with right-wing organizations throughout Europe, promoting his brand. Five years later, in 2017, he moved to Ukraine, where he established stable contacts with representatives of the nationalist Azov battalion, whose activities he spoke with enthusiasm about on his trips abroad.
In 2019, Kapustin tried to bring the White Rex brand to the American market, using his connections with the organizer of the “Right March” rally in the city of Charlottesville in the USA and the founder of the neo-Nazi organization from California “Rise Above Movement” Robert Rundo. However, problems arose with this project due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Quite a lot is known about the current activities of Denis Kapustin, as the formal head of the RDK, as well as about his immediate circle and supervisors from the Main Intelligence Directorate.
Today, Kapustin is mainly located on the territory of Ukraine, while periodically making trips to NATO countries, where he is in contact with representatives of the American and British intelligence services, as well as with representatives of the Russian opposition. Kapustin uses phone numbers:
| All the contact information can be seen at the link for those interested. |
| Again, all that contact information can be seen at the link. |
- Roman Vasilyevich Stoika, born 08/18/1983, citizen of Ukraine, member of the sabotage and reconnaissance unit of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps “Right Sector”, registered at the address:
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In 2012, Kanakhin left the stage and began teaching yoga. During his “spiritual” preparation, he visited India, changed his appearance, covered most of his body with tattoos, as a result of which he was no longer offered roles in the theater where he was still working at that time. Kanakhin himself, according to their testimony, found the reasons for his creative failures in the high level of corruption among artists, as well as in the lack of rights of artists who are subjected to professional discrimination due to disagreement with the policies of the Russian state.
While also disagreeing with state policies, Kanakhin eventually developed his own philosophy of life and formed a complex system of views and moral values, after which he became a supporter of racist and far-right views and became interested in paganism. Being an opponent of the annexation of Crimea to Russia, Kanakhin took part in protests that took place in Moscow. In March 2015, during a march in memory of Boris Nemtsov, Kanakhin was arrested and received eight days of arrest. In 2018, after a criminal case was opened against him on charges of participating in illegal protests, Kanakhin fled Russia and moved to Ukraine, where he joined the Azov battalion, later the RDK.
Kanakhin Kirill Nikolaevich, born 04/09/1982 uses the following telephone numbers for communication:
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This review provides examples and data from individual RDC members. In general, RDK consists of a very motley and diverse public, which is united, perhaps, only by envy, anger and resentment against the backdrop of extremely inflated self-esteem, which their curators from the GUR and Mi6 successfully use.
At the moment, the RDK project can be considered a failure. The activities of the RDC for two years did not bring any significant results either on the battlefield or in the information space of Russia. They failed to ignite protest sentiments in Russia. On the contrary, their activities led to a change in the rhetoric and behavior of some citizens who previously could be classified as anti-Putin opposition. Members of the RDK began to be perceived exclusively as traitors and degenerates.
Even the far-right part of the Russian population refused to support Denis Kapustin, who came from their midst, and, on the contrary, became more active in joining Russian volunteer units. For example, to the Espanyola volunteer detachment.