Amie Ferris-Rotman (Amie_FR): The Russians fighting Putin in Ukraine
war within a war has emerged in Ukraine. More than a month after the Russian army invaded on the order ofThe combatants, who appear to number in at least the hundreds, describe Putin as the enemy, even as they take up arms against their countrymen.
“Vitya” is the nom de guerre chosen by a 25-year-old Russian political science student who said he also joined the Ukrainian territorial defense forces to continue his fight against the Russian government, having attended anti-government protests in his native Moscow since his early teens. “I love my motherland,” Vitya says from Kyiv, where he is stationed. “Hopefully this war will break the political regime. I would like to return home one day.
Ukraine’s government, which has cast the war as a contest between the forces of darkness and light, is leveraging Russian disunity. On April 5, three men wearing military fatigues and black balaclavas faced reporters in Kyiv, where they announced a new battalion calledcomposed entirely of Russian citizens, including former POWs. Addressing their fellow Russians, they said they were morally outraged by Moscow’s lack of discipline and apparent disregard for human life.
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