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A viral 18-year-old street musician in St. Petersburg, Diana Loginova, was detained after leading a public performance of an outlawed anti-Putin song, 'Swan Lake Cooperative,' which criticizes the Russian government and symbolizes resistance. The song, by pro-Ukraine rapper Noize MC, is considered extremist by Russian authorities, and Loginova faces charges related to discrediting the military and organizing unauthorized gatherings.
The anti-Putin paramilitary group, Freedom of Russia Legion, plans to conduct another cross-border raid into Russia from Ukraine, aiming to "free all our territory" amid disarray within the Kremlin. The group, consisting of 200 Russian military volunteers, has already carried out multiple attacks this summer and has ambitious plans for future operations.
An anti-Putin Russian group, aligned with the Ukrainian army, claimed responsibility for a cross-border attack in Russia's Belgorod region, calling it a "peacekeeping operation" and stating their goal is the "complete liberation of Russia." The group also claimed to have destroyed a Russian army motorized rifle company on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the head of Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, acknowledged that the Ukrainian army is "highly organized, highly trained and one of the strongest armies in the world." The acting head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic visited the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, saying it would now be known by its former Soviet name "Artemovsk."
Anti-Putin Russian nationals fighting in support of Ukraine claimed responsibility for a cross-border attack on Russian soil in the Belgorod region, which borders north-eastern Ukraine. The attack resulted in one civilian death and caused confusion and anger in Moscow. The group behind the attack, the Freedom for Russia Legion and Russian Volunteer Corps, wanted to "liberate our motherland from the tyranny of Putin." The incident has drawn sharply different accounts from the Kremlin and Kyiv, with Moscow blaming Ukrainian militants and Kyiv acknowledging that the units had carried out an operation in the area but insisting they were acting independently.
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.
Russian anti-Putin group Black Bridge has claimed responsibility for a fire at a building used by the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Rostov-on-Don, near the Ukraine border. The FSB said fuel and lubricants caught fire in a workshop, causing an explosion and partial collapse of the building. Black Bridge said the fire was caused by an improvised explosive device placed in a container of fuel. The group opposes Putin, Russian authorities and the war in Ukraine, and has claimed responsibility for attacks within Russia. Its ultimate goal is "violent resistance and the destruction of the Putin regime as a whole."