The “Freedom of Russia” Legion, the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDC) and the Nationwide Republican Army (NRA) collectively signed a Declaration on Cooperation on August 31 within the metropolis of Irpin (Kyiv area).
A joint Political Middle was additionally created with the intention of representing their pursuits earlier than the state authorities of various international locations and organizing a typical data coverage, headed by the Russian politician Ilya Ponomaryev.
The Irpin Declaration establishes the ideas of Russian armed opposition in opposition to the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin on either side of the entrance. It was signed on the website of fierce battles between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Putin’s occupiers.
“The countdown to the tip of Putin’s regime has begun, and we’ll finish it on either side of the entrance,” Ponomaryev emphasised.
The variety of Legion and RDC fighters just isn’t disclosed for safety functions, though there are believed to be greater than 1,000 of them.
The Legion “Freedom of Russia” and the NRA emphasised that they are going to set up armed resistance to Putin’s fascism and conduct an data marketing campaign within the Russian neighborhood to impress opponents of Putinism. A standard image of the battle was additionally adopted, within the type of a white-blue-white flag.
Concerning the signatories
The Legion “Freedom of Russia” was fashioned in March 2022. A army unit that fights along with the Armed Forces of Ukraine in opposition to the Russian military, it consists of Russian residents who lived in Ukraine earlier than the full-scale invasion by Russian forces, in addition to Russian troopers who surrendered. All fighters undergo a complete process to test their id and intentions. At this time, there are two battalions.
The NRA – a partisan community on the territory of the Russian Federation – took accountability for the dying of Daria Dugina, the daughter of the ideologist of Russian fascism Alexandr Dugin. Representatives emphasised that in addition they deliberate to take away Dugin himself.
As well as, the NRA is concerned in arson exercise in opposition to Russian army registration and enlistment providers, in opposition to the automobiles of Russian army “volunteers,” in addition to acts of railroad sabotage. Ponomarev signed the doc on behalf of NRA fighters.
The Russian volunteer corps consists of a bit of Russian volunteers with right-wing views. It was fashioned in August 2022 amongst individuals who have been combating for Ukraine since 2014 as a part of models resembling “Azov” and the “Proper Sector”. At the moment, the fighters of the RDC are combating as a part of the Territorial Protection Forces of Ukraine.
Newly arrived fighters are totally checked through a lie detector and army coaching. Amongst them are volunteers and former prisoners of conflict. Prisoners of conflict are additionally totally checked for conflict crimes.
After the signing of the doc, a press convention was held, attended by Ponamaryev, Russian journalist and editor-in-chief of the web site “After Tomorrow” Roman Popkov, Ukrainian politician and writer-futurist Oleksiy Tolkachev, chief of the Russian worldwide motion “Converse Loudly” Andrey Sidelnikov, and representatives of the RDC. As well as, Putin’s former adviser Andriy Illarionov was linked on-line.
The significance of the occasion for society and additional plans for cooperation had been mentioned on the convention. The one objective is outlined as “the defeat of the Russian military in Ukraine, the liberation of Donbas and Crimea, in addition to the destruction of the Putin regime and its remnants.”
The activists need to maintain a trial of prime officers, launch political prisoners, set up a transitional administration and maintain free democratic elections.
