“Caesar” is one of the leaders of the “Liberty Legion”. He is wanted in Russia, where an arrest warrant is pending
The killer drones that landed on the Kremlin domes in the dead of night will remain a mystery for a long time to come. Moscow blames Kiev, but in the Russian capital even many of the most staunch Putinists know that the most dreaded signal has arrived: the partisan formations can now strike at the heart of the power center and show that Putin is vulnerable.
“We rule out that it was a self-attack aimed at giving the green light for further military escalation,” notes a Russian reporter who escaped the regime’s purges but is secretly working with organizations of local human rights activists. “It would have been an own goal – he adds – because it would have shown the Russians and the world the penetrability of the holy of holies of the ‘Putin system’, which was the very purpose of the attack.”
The first result, described as a success by the partisan saboteurs, is the blocking of the GPS system in Moscow, where residents can no longer hail a taxi, rent a bicycle and open a satellite navigation system due to the stop imposed by the Kremlin, which fears new ones Sabotage.
But who are the “partisans” poking fun at the Kremlin from the Ukrainian plains to the Urals? Some seem to come from a distant time, supported by an unrealistic ideological framework. Like the Russian galaxy of “Boak” which stands for “Anarcho-Communist Fighting Organization”. Then there is the “Stop the Wagons” network of Russians and Belarusians who are leading the attacks, bringing down the railroads vital to transporting troops and weapons to the front lines. Bypol is active in Minsk, a secret organization whose members are Belarusian ex-military and police officers specializing in the use of drones. In late February, one was flown over a Moscow radar bomber parked at a military airfield on the outskirts of Minsk. Before returning undisturbed (here is the video of the attack), the remote-controlled aircraft dropped several explosive packages, which blew up the cockpit of the Russian plane. Elements of the armed opposition have claimed responsibility for numerous attacks on both Putin’s and Lukashenko’s regimes, but many attacks remain in question. They range from attacks on strategic or symbolic targets to targeted assassinations. The latest attack was perpetrated yesterday morning in Nizhny Novgorod, the city on the Volga 500 from Moscow. A bomb had been planted on the propagandist’s Audi Q7 Zakhar Prilepin. In the past he had declared his participation in armed formations in the Donbass region, and recently the Kremlin rewarded him by also giving him deputy leadership of the Moscow Art Theater. Prilepin lies dying, while his bodyguard chauffeur died on the spot. Moscow is pointing its finger at the “Kiev regime” and at the United States and Great Britain. For the Kremlin, it is the US and NATO that “feed another international terrorist cell: the Kiev regime. Bin Laden, Isis, now Zelensky with the criminals,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram. One man was arrested and immediately admitted to acting on instructions from Ukrainian intelligence, according to Russian anti-terrorist authorities, who did not release details or intelligence.
Groups of saboteurs made themselves felt last summer. In July 2022 alone, 23 arson attacks against military offices on Russian territory were registered. What unites the different souls of dissidence is the dream of a future without Vladimir Putin and his followers. Women and men can become active where nobody expects it.
The bridgehead is in eastern Ukraine, where the “Legion of Freedom” operates, made up entirely of Russian opponents. It has teams that, alongside the Ukrainians in the Donbass, completed their training in forced stages. The crackdowns on pro-Russian militias feed legends that spread from trench to trench. In recent months, Avvenire has had access to some activities in this area. Secrecy was a dogma. But now, as the dissident armed front is expanding, the young fighters, whose slogan “For Russia! For freedom!”» they decided to expose themselves. Like the legionnaire who calls himself “Caesar” and who is now showing his face, especially since he has learned that he is being sought in Russia for arrest. “The opening of criminal proceedings against those who openly oppose Putin’s regime – he says – shows that the Kremlin is afraid”. So they decided not to hide anymore. «We are aware of our responsibility and contribution to informing the Russians about the real situation – they explain from «Legion» -. That’s why we talk to journalists whenever possible and say our point of view». Also, so as not to feel isolated the lone fighters who have begun to disrupt official activities in various Russian regions, showing that discontent cannot be completely silenced.
On August 27, some government press organs in Minsk and Moscow announced the arrest of Evgenia Belova. The woman had poured flammable liquid into the conspicuous dark BMW of Yevgeny Sekretarev, a high-ranking official at the eighth directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces in Moscow. No accidental goal: the management oversees the “Geheime Staatsschutzdienst”, which deals with war censorship. Evgenia, 65, was described as being treated in a “psychoneurological clinic”. In some interviews, relatives asserted that someone had “hypnotized” them before the arson attack. An excuse like many others, because Moscow cannot admit that they are multiplying and that they can no longer extinguish all voices of organized resistance to the “Putin system”.
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