Analysis: Nord Stream intrigue raises tricky questions for Kyiv
Notably, these attacks were claimed by supposed Russian anti-government forces.
Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of Russia’s Duma who opposed the Kremlin, said last summer that an underground group called the National Republican Army was behind the attack that killed Daria Dugina and that itThe attacks in Bryansk, meanwhile, were quickly claimed by fighters who said they were members of a far-right Russian anti-Putin nationalist group called the Russian Volunteer Corps.
to be Denis Kapustin, also known as Denis Nikitin, a former mixed martial arts fighter and far-right extremist who had lived in Germany, where his ties to neo-Nazis eventually earned him a 10-year ban from Europe’s Schengen zone.that a recent cross-border raid he’d conducted from Ukraine into Russia had the endorsement of Kyiv. “If I did not co-ordinate it with anyone [in Ukraine’s military] … I think we would simply be destroyed,” Kapustin said.
For Ukraine, covert action outside of its borders is a balancing act. Western powers have long been worried about Ukraine crossing a “red line” with Russia, with the United States initially refusing to to Ukraine’s military and pushing Kyiv to not target Crimea, despite the peninsula being considered Ukrainian land.
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