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Kapustin is indeed dressed in black for his discussion with POLITICO in a downtown Kyiv hotel — though his clothing is free of any neo-Nazi logos or flashes. That’s despite the fact he runs a far-right apparel line of T-shirts and caps emblazoned with white nationalist and xenophobic imagery as well as the Nazi symbol 88 — the eighth letter of the alphabet twice being a not-so-subtle code for “Heil Hitler.”

He has links with American neo-Nazi groups, and in 2021 co-hosted a podcast with Robert Rundo, founder of the Rise Above Movement, which participated in the Charlottesville white supremacist rally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrylo_Budanov

In 2014, he took part in the war in Donbas, where he was wounded several times and reportedly participated in a number of classified special military operations.

According to The New York Times, Budanov was brought to the United States for treatment at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after being wounded in fighting in the Donbas.

Budanov was one of the members of the elite Unit 2245 of the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate trained by CIA.

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[–] locke@sopuli.xyz 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That sucks but doesn't really counter the larger point that Russia should gtfo from Ukraine. Especially when Russia is also using nazi individuals and Russia is fully into nazi-style propaganda, while amusingly at the same time blatantly lying about being anti-nazi.

Lol @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Kapustin_(militant) -- "former football hooligan". Well, you have to give it to him for employing his natural skillset toward at least some sort of good things.

[–] The_Che_Banana 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So let me see if I have this straight: He's a Russian Nazi who fights Russian Nazis...?

[–] welldraught@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He is fighting for the nazis not against them

[–] The_Che_Banana 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Ah yes, the nazis that invaded Crimea, shot down a passenger plane (not for the first time), then invaded Ukraine.

You're right, the ONE dude that totally isn't a Nazi dictator totally is doing the right thing because...he called them Nazis first..right? Because that's how it works...The ol' "I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you" pointless war propaganda.

(lol, this is a response to a Nazi loving agitator)

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] The_Che_Banana 1 points 7 months ago

You know, there is an entire country that uses Che....which is where Ernesto kind 9f got his nickname.

But yeah...you know what? you changed my mind! Russian aggrssion is fabulous, the Nazi West is a toilet, and Putins nuts taste like strawberries! Go tell your masters you converted someone and get your use of indoor plumbing for the day reward!

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


As a Russian militant who led eye-catching paramilitary raids into Russia from Ukrainian territory this year and last, Kyiv sees Kapustin has a role to play as an ally against President Vladimir Putin.

German authorities say Kapustin — sometimes known as Denis Nikitin — is “one of the most influential neo-Nazi activists” on the European continent, and that’s a godsend to Russian propagandists, who are seeking to whitewash their murderous invasion of Ukraine as an attempt to “de-Nazify” Kyiv.

That’s despite the fact he runs a far-right apparel line of T-shirts and caps emblazoned with white nationalist and xenophobic imagery as well as the Nazi symbol 88 — the eighth letter of the alphabet twice being a not-so-subtle code for “Heil Hitler.”

Including the notorious Rusich militia, which happily displays Nazi flashes, advocates racist ideology and has been accused of battlefield atrocities in Ukraine and Syria, and the white supremacist Russian Imperial Movement, designated a “terrorist organization” by the United States.

In 2022, Germany’s BND intelligence service said the Russian military has welcomed neo-Nazi groups in its ranks, rendering “the alleged reason for the war, the so-called de-Nazification of Ukraine, absurd.”

Kapustin’s RVC and two other Ukraine-based anti-Putin paramilitary groups — Freedom of Russia Legion and the newest formation, the Siberian Battalion — are in the news again after launching on March 12 their biggest cross-border raids of the war around Kursk and Belgorod, remaining on Russian soil and fighting for more than two weeks.


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