
Shebekino. Photo: Maria Alekseeva / Especially for the "Novy-Europe"
According to the coordinator of the Civil Resistance Center of the “Civil Council” (the organization is engaged in the set and preparation of Russians who want to fight on the side of Ukraine) Denis Sokolov, during the fighting in the Shebekino area, the Russian military were in a state of complete chaos. “They faced an extremely painful choice-whether artillery and aviation to destroy their own cities,” explains Denis Sokolov, explains the new-Europe, “as far as I know, the Russians were even afraid to lose Shebekino. The Russian Volunteer Corps participates in the offensive. We see how hostilities are transferred to the territory of Russia.
People who have signed up in the RDC are already enough to conduct large -scale combined arms operations. Now we are talking about the creation of a hundred -kilometer demilitarized zone on the border. ”
According to Denis Sokolov, today a recruitment is not only in the RDK, but also to other units that will soon be able to take part in such operations. For example, for a month now, the last stage of the formation of the “Siberian battalion” has been created and has been held, which included the Russians volunteers, for ideological reasons, who did not want to join the RDK, which has a Fleur of ultra-right ideas and views. This unit will also fight as part of the International Legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ukrainian side provides only organizational assistance and helps with weapons and provision. Sokolov is sure that every day the support of these formations by Russians, especially those who have left their country, will grow. Our interlocutor hopes for an increase in the number of people who want to join the citizens of the Russian Federation fighting on the side of Ukraine after a number of successful shares.
“When formations arise and stronger, consisting of people whose ideas are understandable to both the depositors who have left and people within Russia, it will become clear who is“ their own ”,” says Denis Sokolov, “it is clear that many, who are fighting for their homeland and against Putin, will become closer than Prigozhin with a sledgehammer.”
At the same time, our interlocutor claims that during the war of the RDK and other pro -Ukrainian units, consisting of Russians, suffered losses. Among the dead, Denis Sokolov calls the anarchist Dmitry Petrov and the fighters with the call sign "Altai" and "Ster".

Experts carry out parallels of the current events with the first and Second World Wars. “Hitler, when he began aggression, also assumed that only the Luftwaffe would bomb other people's cities,” Alexander Musienko, head of the “New Military Law Research Center”, expressed his thought, “but it so happened that the war came from where it began. And we remember the fate of erased from the face of the land of Dresden, severely damaged by Berlin and other German settlements. The sowing wind reapes the storm. This is what we see today in the situation with Putin's Russia. Starting what they call a special military operation there, the Kremlin is not able not only to win, but also to just stop the conflict. Atamanism begins to rise within the country: private military companies and other illegal formations can begin to use weapons in their own territory. ”
According to Alexander Musienko, the complete impossibility of any protest in Russia already leads to the fact that resistance takes armed forms. Society is radicalized. This already happened the day before and during the First World War, when the twisting of the nuts caused a sharp increase in the number of anarchists, bombers and various revolutionaries terrorists. Against the backdrop of the lack of significant victories at the front, large losses, the fall of the economy and the complications of life in people caused by all these factors, discontent ripens.
In order to shake the situation in society and the state of quite relatively small aggressively -minded groups of people with weapons. This minority is often enough to carry out coups and overthrow power. It is this situation, according to our interlocutor, that we are observing today in Russia.
“There is an armed opposition to the regime before our eyes,” continues Alexander Musienko, “this is the Russian Volunteer Corps, the Legion“ Freedom of Russia ”, and other associations. There will be new ones. As far as I know, Ukraine does not directly control the activities of these formations. Fighters are recruited there only from Russian citizens. These people put forward absolutely specific anti -Putin slogans and require a change in power in the Kremlin. So we are dealing with an internal Russian agenda. ”
Also, Alexander Musienko is convinced that the actions of the RDK and the Legion of “Freedom of Russia” help to divert the Russian troops from the front line, which facilitates the expected counterattack of Ukraine.
According to Denis Sokolov, Russia cannot be serious to contrast RDK and other units of Russians who are fighting for Ukraine. “Moscow pretends that nothing happens,” says Sokolov, “but this state of affairs cannot last too long. The score is for weeks. I can assume that the aggressive colonial war, which they tried to mask under a special military operation, will soon develop for the Russians into civilian. The conflict has been going on for a long time. Announcement of martial law, chaos within the country - this is what awaits Russia in the near future. "