Inside the extremist Russian militias fighting alongside Ukraine | DW News
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Published 2024-04-17
Three Russian units said they carried out attacks inside Russian territory. They were together on the battlefield and at a press conference, but wanting to hurt Putin’s Russia is where their commonality ends. The Legion Freedom of Russia is seen as liberal. The Siberian Battalion is made up mainly of minorities from Russia. Denis Nikitin’s Volunteer corps describes itself as nationalist and has a far-right agenda.
Russia justified its invasion of Ukraine with the lie that it was ‘denazifying’ it. This, in a country where the far right doesn’t hold a single parliamentary seat.
And Ukraine cooperating with Neo-Nazis might seem counterintuitive. But for now, the enemy of Ukraine's enemy counts as some kind of friend.
DW’s Max Zander meets a Russian commander who’s taken up arms against his own country.
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All Comments (21)
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Wish that the Siberian group would have been covered, interesting to see ppl or ppl with history in Siberia and thoughts and reasons for fighting against Russia
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Ukraine has the right to defend herself.
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Tell Putin they're just little green men.
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What should Ukraine do? Arrest them? Come on people.
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Guy about the incursions: "This is a special limited military operation" 😂
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Stop Russia
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"Inside the extremist Russian militias fighting alongside Ukraine." Why are they labelled "Extremist"? Why not "Righteous!!!!!!!!"?
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WHY EXTREMIST? IS IT EXTREME TO HATE PUTIN OR WHAT? СЛАВА УКРАИНЕ 🇺🇦
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Extremist? Kind of a poor choice of words.
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Simply put, the enemies of my enemy are my friends.
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DW vocabulary is very often remarkably weird. Normal honest Russians who haven't any possibility to oppose with democratic methods took arms - and for DW they are "extremists" - against "normal occupants".
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The lesson from Afghanistan is don't supply extreme groups, it will come back to bit the hand
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@DW News: I would have liked to hear more about the Siberian Battalion and the Freedom of Russia Legion.
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This guy Denis speaks at least 3 languages 😮
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Why am I not surprised that he knows German 😂
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so they are fighting side by side with indigenous siberians who wants independence from russian colonial rule，what kind of far right is that？
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This just proves that unarmed opposition is useless in an armed conflict. At the moment the best opposition that Russia has are: 1) Armed forces of Ukraine 2) A small right-wing Russian nationalist RDK (Russian volunteer corps) 3) A miniscule centrist element that calls itself Freedom of Russia legion. 4) An even smaller Siberian Battalion comprised of ethnic minorities. That's it. The rest of the liberal talkshop has zero inpact on the situation. To some extent this is by design of their Western support grants that limit even what they can say in public, let alone fight.
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pretty cool how Dennis speaks, fluent English and German in addition to his native Russian.
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Of course Ukraine distances itself from them. Some of them are Russians with all that brings with it culturally. Some fully support the 'Russky Mir' worldview where it's Russia's destiny to conquer and enslave. Except they hate Putin more than even the most hardcore Ukrainian nationalists do. Ethnic Russians in Ukraine fighting for Ukraine, and moderate Russians who seek to end Putin's wars, are friends of the Ukrainian cause. Those ultra-nationalist characters though? They're not friends, they're strictly the enemy of the enemy.
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… is that Russian… speaking German?!?!
