The Russian Connection to Ukraine's Far-Right Militia.

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The Russian Connection to Ukraine's Far-Right Militia.
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Anti-Putin activists are recruiting civilian fighters to join the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), a far-right paramilitary group founded by a former soccer hooligan known as White Rex, to fight against their own country alongside Ukrainian forces. The RVC opposes Putin's invasion and wants to see a smaller, ethnic Russian state. The presence of Russian far-right groups on both sides of the conflict is a sign of an ideological fracturing of Russia's ultranationalist movement.

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