Published by @nsanzo ⋅ 25/12/2025
On Tuesday, in one of his many addresses to the nation, Volodymyr Zelensky highlighted the shift in recent years, seen as a tool for rapprochement with Western families , to celebrate “true Christmas” according to the Western calendar rather than the Orthodox one. Much to the chagrin of Pope Leo XIV, who condemned the move yesterday, the change has not brought about a ceasefire, which Russia has rejected as meaningless, failing to advance toward a resolution and only benefiting the side on the defensive. The change in the dates on which the Ukrainian population celebrates the holidays has also failed to bring about a ceasefire on the information front. In his speech yesterday, the Ukrainian president described the Russian population as “people without god” who have “nothing in common with Christianity or anything human.” Without mentioning the name of the person he was referring to, the Ukrainian president stated that they all share one wish: “that he dies.” Hours earlier, demanding a swift response from Moscow, Zelensky had unveiled the 20-point plan with which Ukraine is prepared to end the war. Despite the questionable nature of some points, especially the one concerning control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear facility, which is pending the continuation of negotiations with Washington, the Ukrainian president claims it is the plan agreed upon by Kyiv and Washington. However, the content of the points published by the Ukrainian authorities makes it clear that this is a media operation with which Ukraine hopes to pressure both its American ally and its Russian opponent into a more favorable agreement for Kyiv.
As could be expected given Ukraine's absolute dependence on its allies and arms suppliers, which nullifies Kyiv's ability to say no to London, Paris, Berlin, and especially Washington, the plan that Zelensky's team is negotiating with Witkoff's and which was published yesterday—predictably prematurely and without coordination with Washington—is based on the 28-point proposal leaked to the press a few weeks ago. Since then, Zelensky has made three tours of the European Union seeking support from his most loyal electorate, Western heads of state and government, and has acted as a lobbying group to push for swift action to remove the issue of using Russian assets held in the EU from the negotiating table. The lack of an agreement has prevented the definitive freezing of these funds from putting them into the hands of Ukraine for military use, but it has eliminated the danger of them being used for reconstruction as war reparations, given the EU a sense of strength and the impression of having something to say in the negotiation, and put Kyiv in a slightly better negotiating position.
Guaranteed by a €90 billion loan from the European Union to sustain the Ukrainian state for the next two years, Kyiv can afford to press for an agreement whose chances of success under the current balance of power on the front lines tend toward zero. Aware that Donald Trump's anger is usually directed at the person he accuses of obstructing peace, Zelensky has sought to accelerate the process, directing the ultimatum to Moscow and publishing his version of the Witkoff Plan as a tool of pressure. “We will never be able to match the sacrifice of the Ukrainian people. But we will support their struggle for survival for as long as necessary. Because Ukraine's security is our security. We have already provided €193 billion in financial, military, and humanitarian support. And we have just agreed to another €90 billion for the next two years,” wrote Ursula von der Leyen, Zelensky's main supporter and representative of the European Union, the Ukrainian army's main supplier, yesterday. The message is clear: thanks to continuous and increasing European funding, Ukraine can afford to keep fighting. Hence, it can also afford to continue publishing plans that, like Zelensky's 2023 "Peace Formula" or the 2024 "Victory Plan," respond only to Ukrainian needs and lack any realism, given that, without having won the war, Ukraine does not have the necessary power to impose peace on its terms.
“The United States and Ukraine have reached consensus on several critical issues aimed at ending the conflict, but sensitive issues surrounding territorial control in the industrial heartland of eastern Ukraine remain unresolved, said the Ukrainian president,” AP reported yesterday . Russian opposition journalist Leonid Ragozin responded that he was “not sure the US side has reached a consensus with Zelensky, at least not on the version of the plan he has presented.” The plan published by Zelensky, the basis of which was negotiated by the United States in a dialogue that, as Ukraine itself admits is still incomplete, shows, is a general political framework, far less concrete than the original 28 points and lacking virtually all the details.
The document outlines the same points as previous drafts promoted by Ukraine: the plan that Zelensky claims to have agreed upon with the United States grants Kyiv everything it can achieve without having won the war: a freeze on the front line along the contact line and no further territorial losses, security guarantees from Washington, the presence of allied troops along the line of contact, future economic benefits in the form of a free trade agreement with the United States and multi-billion dollar investments for reconstruction and the exploitation of the country's natural resources, and privileged accession to the European Union and the single market. Ukraine even goes so far as to reject the US proposal for international oversight of the Energodar nuclear power plant and a 50/50 share of the energy produced. Ukraine maintains that there is still no agreement with the United States, but rejects this option. The only Russian red line that the document does not cross is the one concerning war reparations, which Ukraine has always demanded. However, given that Ukraine would only have to repay the €90 billion loan granted by the European Union if it received payment from Russia, the demand for war reparations is implicit and doesn't even need to be explicitly included in the proposal. The plan entails a heavy militarization of Ukraine, the presence of a contingent of foreign troops on the de facto border —which Kyiv will demand be from the "Coalition of the Willing," meaning NATO member states—and, predictably, omits any mention of the demand for neutrality. Therefore, the aspiration to join the Atlantic Alliance persists, a key factor in this war and Russia's main red line.
In a sham concession, Zelensky yesterday opened the door to the possibility of withdrawing Ukrainian "heavy forces" from the part of Donetsk under his control. Although the plan aims to maintain the line of separation as a de facto border in the four territories that Russia claims as its own—Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk—the Ukrainian president claims to be willing to a partial withdrawal to create a demilitarized zone or free economic zone managed by Ukraine or with a presence of international troops in the event of a similar withdrawal by Russia, an absurd proposition that has only been credible to the most gullible journalists.
“Ukraine is ready to withdraw ‘heavy forces’ from the parts of the Donbas region it still controls if Russia matches the withdrawal as part of a peace agreement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in comments published Wednesday,” wrote Financial Times correspondent Christopher Miller, focusing on one of the less credible details. The willingness to see good faith and legitimate proposals seeking conflict resolution in every word Zelensky utters compels analysts and think tanks to suspend their critical thinking when faced with certain propositions specifically designed to elicit a “no” from the enemy.
“Am I missing something? I don’t see how Zelensky’s proposed plan—that Russia not acquire that 20% of the Donetsk region, withdraw its forces, and that the Ukrainians monitor the demilitarized zone—could be even remotely acceptable to Putin. Surely, this is just a tactic to trap him into rejecting it, isn’t it?” asked Mark Galeotti, an analyst and columnist for The Times, yesterday . The terms of Zelensky’s plan are vague in many ways, but its subtext is clear: this is the kind of equivalent to the Minsk agreements that Kyiv and the European capitals were seeking to reconcile their two most important objectives: appeasing Donald Trump by offering a semblance of peace and obtaining a treaty that neither closes the door to the future recovery of lost territories nor abandons Ukraine’s irreversible Euro-Atlantic path. “There’s no mention of Ukraine’s neutrality or its withdrawal from NATO, so it seems more like what the Kremlin calls megaphone diplomacy . Unworkable. If the Americans come to Moscow with a new plan, this won’t be the right one,” added Leonid Ragozin.
“The strange, itinerant diplomacy we’ve witnessed all year has finally come to an end. It’s a waste of time for the American mediators to take notes for these parties. It’s time to bring them together in one room. Ideally, at a technical level. But time is running out,” wrote activist Almut Rochowanski, sharing the predictable news that the Kremlin will seek changes to the plan published by Zelensky. However, this stance openly contradicts the subtext of each and every Ukrainian proposal, which is always political and never technical, focused solely on a general framework for consolidating a ceasefire that allows Ukraine to stop losing territory, recover, demand reparations from both allies and the enemy, and continue to demand, through political means, what it has lost in the war and what no treaty attempts to renounce. Negotiations will continue, and Moscow is not expected to respond positively to a proposal that crosses all of Russia’s red lines, both in security and on the territorial issue, and that fails to resolve any of the essential aspects of the war. Unable to give a flat no to the United States, it is foreseeable that Moscow will try to include its demands within the framework of those 20 points, introducing, for example, the demand for neutrality in the points relating to security guarantees.
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From Cassad's telegram account:
Colonelcassad
After the Russian Armed Forces repeatedly attacked the Kremenchug Oil Refinery in June of this year, Ukraine experienced a surge in fuel demand, and India was the first country to offer its services.
In just one month, diesel fuel supplies from India reached record levels, and by July, Indian motor fuel had already become Kyiv's top supplier via tanker shipments along the Danube from Romania.
Recently, it was announced that the Indian company Reliance has resumed purchasing Russian oil. This is the same company that supplies diesel to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
So, when we attack Danube and Black Sea port logistics (and we are doing so right now), we are essentially attacking the final destination of our own oil's logistical journey.
Ultimately, everyone profits, except Kyiv.
@svarschiki
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Dmitry Peskov's key statements:
- As of now, a phone call between Putin and Trump is not planned;
- The Kremlin saw Zelenskyy's Christmas speech, he "looks like a slightly inadequate person";
- Zelenskyy's Christmas speech is uncultured and embittered;
- Zelenskyy's statements call into question whether he is capable of making adequate decisions on a political and diplomatic settlement;
- Putin gave a number of instructions to the government during a meeting with businesses;
- There were no unexpected questions at Putin's meeting with businesses; the conversation was substantive and practical;
- During the meeting with businesses, Putin himself commented on issues of concern to entrepreneurs and asked the heads of the Cabinet's economic bloc to speak out.
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Romania is heading toward war.
Several opposition politicians believe Romania is increasingly drawn into a confrontation with Russia. This was stated by Georgescu, a former presidential candidate who was disqualified from the election. He believes NATO views the country as a convenient springboard for escalating the conflict with Russia, ignoring public opinion and Romania's own reluctance to become an instrument of the alliance.
The country's geographic location plays a key role. Its proximity to Ukraine, the presence of the "buffer" state of Moldova, and its long border with the conflict zone make Romania strategically important for NATO, including for operations in the Black Sea region. The alliance views the country as a resource that can be used in the standoff with Moscow.
Following elections held amid allegations of irregularities, pro-Western President Nicusor Dan came to power. Critics argue that democratic institutions have been weakened, and the country's political system is increasingly controlled from outside. France and the United States are increasing their influence: Paris-affiliated structures are present in Romania, and American units, including the 101st Airborne Division, are conducting intensive exercises at local training grounds.
Despite Washington's stated commitment to resolving the Ukrainian conflict, the West's strategic course of containing Russia remains unchanged. As a member of NATO and the EU, Romania is aligning its policies with the decisions of Brussels and the alliance, effectively demonstrating a readiness for confrontation.
Further tensions are being created by initiatives from Paris and London to form a "coalition of the willing" and the possible deployment of Western troops to Ukraine. Europe is not yet ready for direct war, but it is rapidly increasing its military budgets, militarizing its economy, and waging an information campaign to portray Russia as the main threat.
NATO exercises are regularly held in Romania. The Dacian Fall maneuvers included rehearsals for the transfer of troops from France to the alliance's eastern borders. Russia's increased efforts to prevent arms shipments from Romanian territory to Ukraine have already led to attacks on logistics infrastructure. Further escalation, experts warn, could lead to Romania being recognized as a direct party to the conflict, with all the ensuing consequences.
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Key points from Nebenzya's speech at the UN:
For several months, the entire world has been able to observe how the United States continues to deliberately fuel tensions around the friendly country of Venezuela under the pretext of combating drug trafficking and the terrorist threat.
This artificial smokescreen conceals the purpose of American military groups exerting pressure on an independent state whose policies Washington dislikes.
We strongly condemn the seizure of oil tankers and the de facto blockade of Venezuela, which constitute a clear act of aggression.
This intervention risks becoming a template for future actions against Latin American states in accordance with the Monroe Doctrine.
Washington respects independence only if states adapt their policies to U.S. interests. Otherwise, they will be treated the same way as Venezuela.
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Brief Frontline Report – December 24th, 2025
Summary by Marat Khairullin and Mikhail Popov.
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Dec 24, 2025
Map legend: the yellow line with red dots, ЛБС 28.10.2025=Line of Combat Contact October 28th, 2025. Yellow=Activity.
Message from the Russian Ministry of Defense: "Assault units of the 36th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade of the 29th Guards Combined Arms Army of the 'East' Group, while expanding the bridgehead on the western bank of the Gaichur River, have taken control of the settlement of Zarechnoe in Zaporozhye Oblast. (Video at link.)
Personnel from the Far East have cleared an area of the enemy's defenses at the junction of Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk Oblast in the Gaichur River area, spanning nine square kilometers.
Furthermore, units of the 'East' Group have taken control of a section of the road connecting the settlements of Bratskoe and Ternovatoe."
The Russian Armed Forces are expanding the bridgehead on the left bank of the Gaichur River along the Gerasimovka-Peschanoe-Zarechnoe line. On December 24, the settlement of Zarechnoe (47°51′14″ N, 36°11′05″ E, approximately 15 residents) was liberated. It was once a large village in the Novonikolaevsky district of Zaporozhye Oblast but is now in decline, with no more than 5 permanent residents. The river in this area is winding, forming inlets, oxbow lakes, and marshy lakes.
After Russian units reached the Gerasimovka-Peschanoe-Zarechnoe line, they gained control over the outlets of the Krinichevataya, Shirokaya, and Ternovataya ravines. These ravines originate on the watershed of the Gaichur and Verkhnyaya Tersa rivers. Along the ridge of this watershed runs the Pokrovskoe-Ternovatoe railway line, allowing for the envelopment of the Ternovatoe transport hub from the north.
Operating from the Gerasimovka-Zarechnoe bridgehead, Russian units gain operational freedom to execute envelopments of Ukrainian Armed Forces groupings on the southern face of the Pokrovskoe sector or the northern face of the Gulyaipole sector, depending on the tactical situation.
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Russian right muzzled
The death of the 'Spaniard'. Rusich's humiliations. Drugs, arms smuggling, football hooligans.
Events in Ukraine
Dec 24, 2025
A few days ago, news emerged that the leader of Russia’s largest rightwing battalion had been killed. Not at war, but by Russian security services. This incident is quite symptomatic of the quite different relationship the Russian and Ukrainian governments have towards the use of ideologized nationalist militias.
This is also quite relevant for the future of the war. The western media likes to occasionally fantasize about another Prigozhin-style uprising. Alternatively, the press sometimes claims that the Russian government could be limited in its negotiation capacities due to putative resistance from nationalists in the military.
As the following stories should show, this is quite a misplaced fear (or hope). Unlike Ukraine, Russia’s nationalists are quite hamstrung by the security services, though some influential figures do patronize them.
Russian volunteer units
Both the Russian and Ukrainian war efforts have involved nationalist volunteer units, quite often filled with exceedingly unsavoury individuals. However, the two societies have quite different approaches towards these volunteer units, or, to call a spade a spade, neo-nazi militias.
An Azov fighter with a kolovrat Slavic swastika. His Russian counterparts in the some of the groups we will cover today enjoy the same symbol.
Ukraine has built its identity around a (neoliberal) disdain for the state and glorification of ‘ground-up initiatives’. This conception heroizes IT startupers and nationalist volunteer battalions alike. Indeed, the same class of people can be found in both groups.
Russia, in contrast, glorifies the power of its state. It is the regular armed forces that are expected to win wars, not ‘plucky volunteers’. Nevertheless, Tsarist Russia once employed a vast contingent of irregular Cossack troops to guard its borders.
The role of the Cossacks in the history of both countries is instructive. Cossacks in both modern-day Ukraine and Russia regularly rioted against authority.
When the Cossack Bohdan Khmelnitsky rose up against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1654, this gave rise to the short-lived Hetmanate. This was a vassal state to Russia that marked the highpoint of Ukrainian national sovereignty until the 20th century. Ukrainian nationalist historians have always stressed the ‘freedom-loving Cossack’ as the foundation of Ukrainian statehood.
Ilya Repin’s famous painting ‘Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks’
But when Russian Cossacks like Stepan Razin or Emelyan Pugachev rose up against Moscow in the 17th and 18th centuries, they were crushed by the central government. They are remembered as either traitors with possible foreign ties or misguided fighters for social justice. Russian national poet novelized Pugachev’s uprising, famously quipping:
God forbid we see a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless!
The 2023 uprising by PMC Wagner leader Evgeny Prigozhin is often compared to the mutinies of Razin and Pugachev, both by Prigozhin’s opponents in the Russian government and his nationalist admirers. The dissolution of PMC Wagner and the mysterious (or not) death of Prigozhin soon after his failed mutiny also echoes Razin and Pugachev’s fates. All the groups we will analyze today were at some point allied with Prigozhin’s PMC Wagner.
Holy shit!
Now back to the present.
Ukraine’s army was extremely unenthusiastic to fight its citizens in 2014. As a result, much of the early war effort depended on the efforts of nationalist fighters in volunteer formations like Azov.
Facing the likes of Azov were mostly not opposed nationalist forces. In the 2014 to 2022 period, most of the combatants fighting the Kiev government in the Donbass were (former) Ukrainian citizens. For this reason, oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, a major sponsor of Ukrainian volunteer troops in 2014-15, called it a ‘civil conflict’ in 2018. He said the war was most similar to the Spanish Civil War, a comparison I agree with. Though it was Spaniards who did most of the fighting, all sides were significantly aided by outside forces. That didn’t negate its character as a civil war.
And if the weak Ukrainian state was probably desperate to send rebellious nationalists off to die in the war, the Russian government felt less pressure to do so.
Unlike Ukraine, Russia has been able to repress rebellious nationalists quite easily. Maxim Martsinkevich, the most famous neo-nazi of the post-soviet world, idolized by nationalists in both Ukraine and Russia, died in a Russian jail in 2020. Scores of violent Russian nationalists fled to Ukraine to escape criminal charges in Russia throughout the 2000s. After the 2014 euromaidan, even more Russian neo-nazis came to Ukraine. Many of them have gone on to play highly important roles in the development of the Azov movement.
But there were ideologized volunteer units on the side of the pro-Russian Donbass republics, as well. Unlike Ukraine, there was more ideological diversity here. On the side of the Donbass republics fought both neo-nazis in ‘Rusich’ and left-populists in ‘Prizrak’. Declared communists with their symbolism have always been able to fight on the Donbass/Russian side, unlike Ukraine.
The emblem of the anti-Kiev Rusich unit. Again, the Kolovrat.
Nevertheless, in the 2014-22 period groups like Rusich were relatively tiny. Though they got plenty of PR, Rusich leader Alexey Milchakov admitted in a 2020 interview that his unit only had a few dozen members. Though Rusich was in the Donbass in 2014, after that its fighters were with Wagner in Syria.
Alexey Milchakov, leader of Rusich, famously declared ‘I am a nazi and I am proud of that’ in an interview a few years back
By 2022, western media would claim that Rusich had several hundred members. It is certainly likely that Rusich has grown in wartime.
But it is still incomparable to Ukraine’s Azov, which counts many tens of thousands of members in the Ukrainian army over a range of units. The Third Army Corps alone has 20,000 troops as of 2025, and is set to grow to 40,000. And there are many other units in the Azov family, such as the 1st Azov Corps of the national Guard and special forces units in military intelligence like the Russian Volunteer Corps or Kraken.
What Rusich lacks in size, it makes up for media presence. Its telegram channel has almost 250,000 subscribers. This is at least partly due to Rusich’s PR support from the rightwing Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, especially through his ‘Tsargrad’ media group. In turn, Rusich churns out the anti-migrant propaganda that Malofeev so loves.
But why does such a unit exist to begin with? There’s the obvious fact that those with a passion for and experience in violence are what any state needs to fight wars. The nazi football hooligans that make up groups like Rusich certainly fit these qualifications.
Groups like Rusich — and the Wagner PMC, which was always closely associated with Rusich — also ensure that potentially oppositional white nationalists are fighting for the government, not against it. This isn’t anything particularly new. It is often hard to distinguish the ‘true nationalists’ and the ‘fake government ops’ in the Russian 2000s and 2010s. Of course, this hardly differs from the situation in the US, or any other country.
Famous photos of Rusich leader Milchakov
Figures like Malofeev and groups like Rusich are also important in that they prevent all Russian nationalists from defecting to the Ukrainian side. In 2014, a significant portion of Russian nationalists did just that. Given their repression by the Russian government, pro-Ukrainian sentiments were particularly widespread among the most violent and extreme nationalists.
As I wrote recently, Rusich leader Alexey Milchakov’s best friend defected to Ukraine in 2014, becoming a prominent figure in Azov. Some even claim that Milchakov visited Kiev in late 2013 to check out the ongoing nationalist revolution. Rusich’s slogan ‘Glory to Rus’ is the same slogan used by Rusich’s competitors, the pro-Kiev Russian nazis in the ‘Russian Volunteer Corps’. In the interview to Ukrainian media below, Russian Volunteer Corps representative Alexei Levkin boasts that plenty of ex-Wagner troops have defected over to him.
Rusich’s humiliations
Russian rightwingers supporting the post-2022 war effort have certainly been able to grow their online reach. Rusich’s current telegram, set up in late 2022, only broke 100,000 followers in mid-2023, and currently has 250,000. The rightwing blogger/shitposter Vladislav Pozdnyakov has increased his telegram followership from 30,000 to 230,000 since 2022, and Rusich fighter Evgeny Razzkazov rose from 5,000 to 132,000 followers.
But despite this, they remain a rather embattled force in Russia’s complex world of political intrigues. Often accused of mainly existing online, Rusich seems to spend much of its time declaring it has abandoned the battlefield due to its frustrations with the Russian government. When it isn’t doing that, its fighters threaten the Russian government with race wars.
In July 2023, prominent Rusich fighter (Ukrainian-born, by the way) Evgeny Razzkazov threatened some sort of violent action unless the government punished a Muslim he accused of an attack on a military veteran:
I am issuing a direct ultimatum. The authorities have 48 hours… If this does not happen, I will take to the streets, and everyone who has the honor and courage to follow me will come out with me. And we will begin to defend our homes, our children, our wives, and our elderly ourselves.
Razzkazov, alias ‘Topaz’, is mainly known for publicly celebrating Hitler’s birthday. The following isn’t the only example.
Anyway, Topaz’s grand 2023 race-war ultimatum came to… nothing. After his declared 48 hours deadline for the government to do something ran out, he met with two bloggers and announced a paid stream for ‘for subscribers of the rank ‘obscenely rich Russian’ and higher’. The two bloggers were a rightwing Muslim Dagestani (yes, they exist), and a Russian nationalist MMA fighter named Max Divnich, previously associated with Denis Nikitin’s WhiteRex tournaments. Nikitin is today the leader of Ukraine’s Russian Volunteer Corps.
In 2023, a Rusich-linked individual was arrested in St Petersburg for plotting a terrorist explosion. He claimed that his 3 kilograms of explosives and 166 rounds of ammunition belonged to Rusich. Drugs were also present. The man arrested, a 33 year-old painter, posts a range of rightwing, Nietzchean content online. He told another Russian publication that Rusich leader Milchakov had given him the weapons in 2015.
As I’ve written before, Rusich was one of the few groups that openly supported Prigozhin’s July 2023 mutiny. It found itself in the company of a range of fervently anti-Putin liberals and neo-nazis living in Ukraine and western countries.
Obviously, this is unlikely to have helped Rusich’s image in the eyes of the government.
Then in August 2023, Rusich officially declared it was leaving the battlefield. Its reason for doing so was the Russian government’s inability to stop the arrest in Finland of key Rusich figure Yan Petrovsk, aka ‘Slavian’.
This combat rest seems to have only lasted a few months.
While Petrovsky rotted away in Finland, Kirill Rimkus, another Rusich co-founder was arrested in September 2023, this time in Russia. He was accused of kidnapping and violent extortion as part of an organized crime group. Rimkus died in Kursk in the summer of 2024. He was part of the unit Storm-Z, which is generally known for recruiting prisoners.
There’s also another fact about Rimkus. Just as Rusich leader Milchakov was close friends with pro-Ukrainian Russian neo-nazi Roman Zheleznov, Rimkus supported the Ukrainian Euromaidan in 2013. He only stopped supporting it after its victory in February 2014, because liberal nationalists came to power instead of the open neo-nazis he liked.
And in April 2024, prominent Rusich fighter and nationalist blogger Evgeny Razzkazov lost a court case against a left patriotic Russian senator. The court ordered Razzkazov to pay 500,000 rubles in compensation.
A somewhat unflattering photo of Razzkazov, though his smile is unnerving in any circumstances. He also likes proclaiming his love for ‘sadism’.
The conflict between the two is all rather inane and I won’t go into it. As usual, it involves arguments over Muslims. The fact that Razzkazov lost the case is what matters. In Ukraine, it would be unthinkable for any politician to sue a top Azov fighter for slander, let alone to win the case. Razzkazov ended up fleeing to the frontlines to escape the court case, now as part of the Espanyola unit.
Rusich is also often forced to delete particularly offensive posts. In August 2024, Rusich called for its followerts to deliver it a ‘one captured Ukrainian (preferably not a true Slav, but a smoked Crimean Tatar or something similar) to perform a ritual sacrifice to the Slavic Gods’ After a protest from a Crimean Duma senator in the ruling United Russia party, they deleted the post a few days later.
There was also the declaration of cryptocurrency rewards for videos showing the execution of Ukrainian POWs recently. I covered it here, as well as the Ukrainian counter-competition. Rusich also deleted that post fairly quickly.
A particularly strange example of wikipedia’s bias can be seen in the page on ‘crimes involving the Order of the Nine Angles’. Despite the fact that the most well-known Russian adepts of this nazi satanist cult currently fight for the Ukrainian army, no mention is made of this. That is even though the bibliography for the page includes the Russian investigation into these very individuals!
Instead, Rusich is made into Russia’s chief O9A proponents. Now, I don’t doubt that Rusich is into the O9A mumbo jumbo. Maybe they’ve even committed some ritual murders. Their recent post calling to murder Ukrainian POWs contained a reference to Morena, the ‘Slavic god of death’ glorified by Russian O9A literature.
However, the wikipedia page contains bizarre allegations that Rusich forces ritually murdered and dismembered a Chechen ‘Akhmat’ soldier. The source for such claim is the New Statesman, but the only source is from Ukrainian hacker groups. Perhaps it really happened, but if it did, Akhmat would have made a massive noise about it. They are very well connected in Russia, as we will see shortly.
Rusich has had beef with the Chechen community. Quite naturally, given Rusich’s nationalist proclivities. Both Rusich and Chechen fighters accuse each other of being ‘Tik Tok fighters’.
However, this struggle has been quite squarely won by the Chechens.
In early 2014, commander of Akhmat Apti Alaudinov called Rusich a bunch of ‘fascists’ and ‘armchair warriors’. The conflict ended in January 2025 with Milchakov ‘the Serb’ sitting in Auldinov’s room in front of the Akhmat banner. Naturally, Rusich’s telegram followers weren’t impressed.
Ukrainian and pro-Ukrainian Russian neo-nazis spent the next couple of months reposting the video and gleefully declaring variations of ‘Milchakov has been raped by the Chechen goatfuckers’.
In a desperate attempt to protect his reputation, Rusich threatened to kill a Russian Senator from the ruling United Russia party later in January 2025. The senator’s crime was to defend Russia’s multi-ethnic nature.
It is hard not to conclude that Rusich has proven powerless in the face of Russia’s Chechen deep state.
Malofeev’s nazis
Besides Rusich, there are three other ideologized Russia nationalist units. These are the 88th Espanyola brigade, the 106th airborne division, and the Russian Imperial Legion. Little is known about the Russian Imperial Legion and it seems fairly irrelevant.
The 106th is part of the Russian ministry of defense, and is sponsored by rightwing businessman Konstantin Malofeev, a fascinating figure I have written plenty about.
Malofeev often publishes photos of himself greeting the football hooligan ‘Moscow’ division off to war. In May 2023, announcing their formation and departure to the frontlines, he noted that many were members of his nationalist martial arts society ‘the Two-Headed Eagle’. I wrote recently about a number of cases where members of this network turned out to sympathize Ukraine’s nazi Azov movement.
Malofeev seeing off the 106th in May 2023
Malofeev with a fighter from the 106th, May 2024
DailyStorm.ru (not Stormer, by the way) put out a fairly positive piece on the 106th when it was founded in 2023. In it, Tsargrad employee Dmitry Rumyantsev tells the publication about the 106th close links with Prigozhin’s Wagner, then still at large:
"Wagner has been around for a long time as an organization, and many people have passed through it. So it's perfectly normal; they're everywhere now. They're football fans here, too. There's nothing wrong with them serving in Wagner, " said Dmitry ‘Frank’ Rumyantsev, press attaché for the 106th Brigade.
Dmitry "Frank" Rumyantsev
He also confirmed that new recruits are sought out through Malofeev’s organization:
Our senior comrades from the Double-Headed Eagle and friends of this organization, including those from the football world with ties to military service, work on this.
Naturally, Rumyantsev claims that the 106th wasn’t created by Malofeev. But Rumyantsev, himself Malofeev’s employee at Tsargrad, admits that Malofeev’s money is getting to the 106th:
"Many people think Malofeev created [the 106th Brigade]. On the contrary, the initiative came from the Double-Headed Eagle to Malofeev, who said we wanted to gather our guys from the football community in one place. He supported it and, in fact, is sponsoring it all. <...> Personally, I don't receive money from Malofeev, but I know he helps. We have an accounting department. I don't know how much Konstantin Valerievich [Malofeev] enters into it, and anyway, it's none of my business , " the press attaché confirmed.
And despite Malofeev’s constant emphasis on the need for Russia to embrace Orthodox Christianity and reject the Satanist west, Rumyantsev and the 106th are (naturally) quite into paganism:
“We are mostly right-wing nationalists, that’s no secret. There are pagans and even Buddhists among us , “ said Dmitry Rumyantsev.
Dmitry himself wears a jacket with a mjolnir, the hammer of the Norse god Thor, a symbol commonly found among neopagans. However, his press attaché says he is an Orthodox Christian.
“I just like Thor’s hammer. I believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, but I can’t believe in the hammer. It’s just a beautiful symbol , “ a fan commented .
The article also shows the 106th questionable taste in banners:
Naturally, the 106th also has racial and political requirements for prospective recruits:
There are no representatives of football clubs from the Caucasus among the battalion’s fighters. Frank explained this by saying that these clubs have no football-related organizations.
“There’s no football-related movement in these clubs, so we can’t have these guys. The core of the team is made up of people from that subculture; there’s no such subculture there. There are people who think they’re part of that subculture, but we don’t think so. It’s nothing personal , “ the press attaché said .
The path to the 106th is also closed to liberals, communists and representatives of Antifa.
“There are no outright liberals. I really like the word, but I don’t really like who it’s applied to. It turns out that a liberal is a pro-Ukrainian. How can we have pro-Ukrainians in our reconnaissance company? As for communists, I don’t even understand how they can fight against the Ukraine they created. We can’t have people from the Antifa subculture because, to put it mildly, we don’t have a good relationship with them. And they’re unlikely to ask to join , “ Dmitry stated .
The 106th, despite its patronage by Malofeev, is nevertheless not universally liked by Russian law enforcement. In May 2024, a group of neo-nazis went off to fight in the 106th. This earned the ire of law enforcement in the Tula oblast, the area the young sig heilers hailed from. The institution angered was the famous ‘department E’, a section of the Russian interior of defense which focuses on extremist groups.
May 23. Mash is one of Russia’s largest tabloid-style news sources, and is not oppositional towards the government
The telegram channel ‘Tula. ExtremiZm’, associated with Department E, released a long post on the matter on May 24, 2024, along with a video of the individuals in question:
Insider Info on the “Cyborgs” (Video at link.)
In recent days, a number of major Telegram channels published news about an upcoming court hearing to recognize the group of Tula-based football hooligans known as the “Cyborgs” as an extremist organization and to ban their criminal activities in Russia.
Our editorial team has uncovered the full background of this group of “so-called fans,” the firm (in slang, a collective of individuals) known as the “Cyborgs.” Its members have only a very tenuous connection to football. The firm was created to engage in so-called “around-football” activity (a slang umbrella term that includes any kind of disorder involving fans), as well as to promote extremist ideas.
There were no random people in the “Cyborgs” firm: everyone was united by ideas of white racial superiority, assaults on people of non-Slavic appearance, a fondness for “ultra-right” tattoos (i.e. associated with people who share radical nationalist views), and the symbolism of neo-Nazism.
The “Cyborgs” firm has more than 10 members. One of its leaders was convicted of committing three extremist crimes (a death threat motivated by extremism and two counts of causing moderate bodily harm, also on extremist grounds). Another leader was convicted of repeated propaganda and public display of Nazi symbols. In addition to four extremist crimes, members of the firm committed nine administrative offenses of an extremist nature, which for the most part consisted of promoting extremism and Nazi symbols in public places. The symbols in question include Nazi imagery such as the “Black Sun” and the runes “Odal” and “Algiz,” symbols used by the SS and popular within the terrorist organization “Azov,” which is banned in the Russian Federation.
The members of the “Cyborgs” group survived on odd jobs, were mostly unemployed, and occasionally worked as security guards in Tula nightclubs.
As for the news claiming that the “fans” have ceased their activities and gone to the front lines, we leave that to the conscience of those who launched this paid-for story online. No comments here—sit back and enjoy the show.
P.S. Football lovers of “Azov,” indeed.
In October 2024, the 106th also announced it was open for white nationalist recruits from around the western world. However, the 106th doesn’t seem to be particularly large or active at the frontlines. And after just existing for two years, Russian law enforcement seems to already be fairly tired of it. But to understand that, we need to take a look at a much larger unit of Russian football hooligans.
Espanyola’s fall
The 88th Reconnaissance and Sabotage Brigade "Espanyola" (88th RDBR) is the largest Russian nationalist unit after the dissolution of Wagner in mid-2023. And yes, you read that right, the 88th.
Espanyola is said to be sponsored by associates of the Rotenberg brothers, a powerful financial clan in Russia that enjoys good relations with the Kremlin. They were apparently interested in having their own private army.
Espanyola fighter, August 2024
In fact, Espanyola was the largest rightwing unit, since it now no longer exists. Over the past few weeks, the unit has been disbanded and its leader killed by law enforcement. But why?
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https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/ ... ht-muzzled
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"I'll be the last one to leave Kyiv"
December 24, 8:54 PM
Zaluzhny's published opus begins with the phrase, "I will be the last to leave Kyiv."
This is especially amusing coming from a character who suffered a crushing defeat in the Zaporizhia region in 2023, clashed with the cocaine-fueled Führer, was removed from his post, and continues to sit in London. A worthy candidate for the "conscious" people.
It's noteworthy that the Nazi Beletsky is already working on Zaluzhny, directly blaming him for the defeat in the Zaporizhia region.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/10265309.html
Fixers
December 24, 7:04 PM
Dmitriev reported to Putin on the results of negotiations with the Americans regarding the peace plan. This once again demonstrates that the Kremlin views Dmitriev as a key figure in informal shuttle diplomacy, playing roughly the same role under Putin as Witkoff did under Trump. In common parlance, he's a fixer.
The Kremlin also stated that it would not comment on the progress of the negotiations.
It's worth noting that, unlike the West (and especially the EU), the Kremlin prefers to maintain the confidentiality of ongoing negotiations, while the West continues to spew leaks. Under Trump, leaks from the White House have become fewer, especially when the parties have begun to engage in substantive discussions, where leaks are simply a hindrance. Hence the deluge of fabrications and fake news from globalist circles, which often don't know what Putin and Trump, or Dmitriev and Witkoff (or even Kushner) are actually discussing. Therefore, real knowledge through leaks has to be replaced with fabrications and assumptions.
I note that progress in negotiations with the US emerged precisely when the notorious "megaphone diplomacy" diminished. This doesn't mean they will ultimately yield a result, but the process is already clearly different from what we observed during the previous 10 years of war in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the cocaine-fueled Führer declared that he would not lift martial law and mobilization even after the ceasefire.
This, in fact, demonstrates once again that negotiating anything with him is pointless, and that he is now a clear obstacle to ending the war. As soon as the war ends and martial law is lifted, he will be finished.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/10265018.html
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I doubt that Witless's 'fixes' will cut any mustard with the Russian security sectors,
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Slobozhansky line
December 24, 2025
Rybar
Fighters have advanced into Grabivske, near Vysokoye in the Krasnopolsky district of Sumy Oblast . Numerous reports have previously been published online about Grabivske coming under Russian Armed Forces control, but only now are some advances being confirmed on the ground.
Meanwhile, the neighboring, smaller town of Vysokoye was previously declared liberated, a claim confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The enemy has already deployed reserves to the area.
According to our data, civilians have indeed been evacuated from Grabivske , as well as a significant number of prisoners, including officers of Ukrainian forces. This clearly indicates the disorganization of the enemy's defense in this area; the enemy was driven out of the village in just two days.
The question of scaling the offensive remains open. Advancing toward Krasnopolye and beyond will require significantly more forces than currently deployed. Meanwhile, further north, along the Ugroedy - Repyakhovka line , the Ukrainian Armed Forces already had significant reserves concentrated.
Thus, at this stage, the focus is more on tactical advancement and probing the enemy's defenses than on immediately launching a deep offensive. The Ukrainian Armed Forces retain the ability to deploy reinforcements here, including through accumulated reserves in the neighboring Sumy area .
https://rybar.ru/slobozhanskij-rubezh/
Zarechnoye is under control
December 24, 2025
Rybar
"Situation in the East Zaporizhzhia Direction":
The bridgehead on the left bank of the Gaichur River continues to expand. Units of the "East" Guards Forces from the 36th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 29th Army have taken control of the village of Zarechnoye , at the junction of the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions .
The liberation of this settlement logically continues the success after the clearing of Andreyevka and Gerasimovka , forming a stable bridgehead west of Gaichur .
Moreover, successes here partially offset the recent results of enemy counterattacks in the Dobropillya area . There, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, taking advantage of the heights west of the river, conducted several raids with small groups.
At the same time, the situation around Hulyaipole is escalating . The battle for the city is entering a decisive phase: the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already deployed the majority of their combat-ready assault units to the area, underscoring not only the symbolic but also the tactical significance for the enemy command.
The capture of Hulyaipole will allow the bridgehead behind Gaichur to be significantly expanded and forces to be freed up for a further offensive in the north of the Zaporizhzhia region , bypassing the Orekhovsky fortified area .
https://rybar.ru/zarechnoe-pod-kontrolem/
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In Kupyansk
However, there's no need to "get ahead of ourselves." The enemy is filling the new defensive line on the heights between Zakotnoye and Reznikovka with personnel and UAV units, and is also reshuffling the local group's command.
Putin ordered to decisively stop attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to break through to Kupiansk. The enemy group under the city will be destroyed in January - February, the commander of the “West” group reported to the president.
