This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to Lucas Weber, the writer,

researcher and founder of MilitantWire.com. We're going to be talking about the Russian Volunteer Corps, a far-right Russian but pro-Ukraine

militia that's been launching armed raids into Belgorod, a town on the Russian

border with Ukraine. It's a very weird situation, gets very messy and there's a

lot of misinformation out there.

We're going to be going into what's actually happening. Support Popular Front

at patreon.com slash Popular Front. popular front. So recently there's been a Russian volunteer unit that is pro-Ukraine so they're

from Russia but they're fighting for Ukraine in the war. They have launched these raids into a border area

called Belgorod which is inside Russia so essentially you've got Ukrainian or pro-Ukraineian militia kind of doing

miniature invasion of Russia in this small region.

There have been gun battles, several soldiers on the Russian side have been killed.

It's pretty serious.

This isn't the first time they've done it.

I think they've done it twice or three times now.

The whole situation is quite strange.

The group that's doing this, the Russian Volunteer Corps, they are out and out open neo-Nazis. Now obviously that's not to say

everyone in Ukraine is a Nazi. We know that's bullshit that is Russian

propaganda. Over 70% of 44 million people voted in a practicing Jew, so if Ukraine was a so-called Nazi

Junta, it would be the worst one that ever existed.

However, there is a far right issue. one that has been true

has been true for a long time it's true in pretty much every country you could

go to in Europe I don't know why some people

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