Cross-border attacks in Russia’s Belgorod region this week have brought attention to Russian militias that have been fighting against their own country, as it wages war on Ukraine.
The Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps claimed they were behind assaults on villages in the western region, about 80 kilometres north of Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv.
The Kremlin describes those responsible for the attacks as “Ukrainian saboteurs” and claimed to have killed more than 70 members of the two groups combined, also referring to them as “Ukrainian nationalists.”
While they may be united in their anti-Kremlin mission, the factions appear to
