'Russia faces diverse threats from cross-border sabotage forces and domestic partisans,' an expert on Russian militant groups tells Newsweek.
report last August cited unnamed intelligence officials suggesting some part of the Ukrainian government may have played a role in Dugina's assassination.
Additionally, while the NRA has touted the so-called Irpin Declaration that would align it with both the RVC and the Freedom of Russia Legion, the RVC has denied signing the document and has asserted that it did not recognize the tricolor white-blue-white flag used by the NRA and Ponomarev, or their stated liberal ideology.has reached out to the Congress of People's Deputies, the National Republican Army's press service and the Russian Action Committee via email for comment.
In many cases, Russian media has corroborated these attacks, with former President Dimitry Medvedev, now deputy chair of the Security Council, calling in November for the reinstatement of the death penalty for wartime saboteurs. "BOAK and aligned groups have a measurable evolution in capabilities since the start of the war in February 2022," Lord said."What began with rather simple sabotage acts of shunting Russian railways has progressed to the use of IEDs and other more advanced methods."ties during a documentary interview published by Popular Front in January, a BOAK member laughed and claimed,"I think if we were CIA we would act more effectively, but we act with the resources we have.
The group is able to evade Russian security services under a security policy called"paranoid Zero Trust," according to the representative.
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