Dalam parade gembira propaganda tak tahu malu, pejuang pembangkang Rusia kembali dari serangan di negara asal mereka muncul di Ukraina dengan trofi - sebuah kendaraan lapis baja Rusia ditangkap - tapi bertengkar untuk tetap berpegang pada penjelasan resmi Kyiv eksploitasi mereka.
Ukrainian officials say the fighters were acting on their own when they raced across the Russian border and shot up Russian towns in the Belgorod region earlier this week, in a two-day raid that was extensively cataloged on social media.
They weren’t.
Members of the Freedom for Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps – both made up of Russian citizens who are fighting in Ukraine against their motherland – all fall under the command of the Ukrainian security forces.
“Was this an independent action uncoordinated with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, or did they give you instructions?” I asked Dennis Nikitin, leader of the far-right Russian Volunteer Corps on Wednesday.
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