Members of at least two right-wing groups, the Russian Imperial League and Rusich, are participating in the war against Ukraine, and the Kremlin is collaborating with at least one right-wing individual for its own purposes.
German intelligence has information that members of Russian right-wing radical and neo-Nazi organizations are present in the ranks of Russian forces involved in the war in Ukraine, reports Spiegel, citing a confidential Federal document Intelligence Service, produced by journalists. to see.
The seven -page review was provided to several federal ministries last week.
The document states that members of at least two right-wing groups, the Russian Imperial League and Rusich, are participating in the war against Ukraine, and the Kremlin is collaborating with at least one right-wing individual for itself. its objectives. The authors of the review wrote that cooperation with such groups “reduces the ‘denazification of Ukraine’ as the alleged cause of the war on stupidity.”
The document does not provide indicative estimates of how many representatives of such organizations may be involved in the fighting against Ukraine, but gives the names of individual units – such as the Russian Imperial Legion, which has already appeared in ORDLO in 2014-2015, and has its own training base in St. Louis. Petersburg. The deputy head of this organization, Denis Gariev, was reportedly killed in Ukraine, while Gariev himself and several other militants were seriously injured.
Regarding Rusich in the review, they wrote that this group may have been associated with the Wagner Air Force and participated in battles in the Donbass in 2014-15, and also, possibly, in Syria. At the stage of a full -blown war, militants from Rusich began to participate in battles no later than the beginning of April.
BND analysts included in the document a photo of Rusich’s co-founders, in which one, Aleksei M., posed with a swastika flag, while his colleague Jan P. shows off Nazi salute. They also wrote about the right-wing radical Alexander M., who hails from Donetsk, who in April, via Telegram, was looking for volunteers for the war against Ukraine. It was noted that he himself had previously fought on the side of the militants and worked as a correspondent for the Russian First Channel.
Recall, former British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said Russian President Vladimir Putin was an ethnic nationalist trying to become a “cancerous tumor” of Ukraine. “Obviously there are other groups of Russian speakers who potentially feel the way the Nazis felt during World War II – that they own these people,” he said.
Source: korrespondent
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