Not the first time these guys have crossed the border into Russia, but previously it was just to sneak in, film a video, maybe raise a white-blue-white flag, and get out before Russian forces can respond. Capturing and planning to hold a border crossing is, uh, ballsy. Whether they succeed or (more likely) fail at that goal, the damage is done - Russia will now have to stretch its depleted resources to secure the whole border against such embarrassing incursions.
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Imagine how many Ukrainian lives, soldiers and civilians, could have been saved and how sooner this war could have been over if it wasn’t for this endless don’t-provoke-Putin thing over tank killers/artillery/air defense/IFVs/tanks/whatever…and now F-16s.
At every step, Ukraine had to pay with thousands of its troops to prove it that hiding one’s head in the sand just doesn’t work — and that irrational fears, lack of resolve, and high-minded Realpolitik theories are only making things worse.
When this war is over, there will be decades of bitter mourning for those who died to make the West wake up and go on doing the right thing, one step at a time.
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Notable: “Since February 2022, about 50 Russians have been arrested on suspicion of working for the FSB at the U.S.-Mexico border, terrorism expert Vera Mironova told Meduza, citing contacts she has in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.”
(Sources unverified)
Both Baza and the channel 112 said that an Aurus with the same license plate number as the one involved in the crash has previously been assigned to Russian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Kirill.
Pretty ballsy to try and crash out an armored car. Perhaps just an accident yeah? 
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Russian businesses want to party like it’s 1959 with 6-day workweek
Russia’s business tycoons have approached the country’s ministry of labor suggesting it increases the working week to six days, says Kremlin-approved broadsheet Izvestia.
The Avanti Association of Entrepreneurs for the (heaven help us) “Development of Business Patriotism” has reportedly urged labor minister Anton Kotyakov to extend working times to help the “economy” as the sanctions linked to its February 2022 invasion of the Ukraine continue to hit businesses, though there was no talk of paying workers any more than they receive today.
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Just FTR, a credible media report mentioned that the RVC/LRL mentioned sadly have a neonazi background. Which makes we want to puke.
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The founder of the Russian Volunteer Corps calls himself a Russian nationalist but insists that he is not a Nazi or a white supremacist, which didn’t stop him urging white nationalists to fight against Putin. The founding members are reportedly far-right Russians who had moved to Ukraine and fought with the Azov Regiment.
The Freedom of Russian Legion are ethno-nationalists who oppose regional separatism (within Russia’s internationally recognised borders) and think that “the most humiliated and disenfranchised among all the peoples of the Russian Federation is the Russian people”.
ETA: There are Russia neo-Nazis fighting on the Russian side as well, for example Rusich:
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