The General Staff in Kiev is silent about Ukraine's large-scale offensive. The anti-Putin fighters in the Russian border area are all the more eager to document their actions.

Thousands of residents have already had to flee. Area is the former deployment area of the Russian army for the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The war is gradually spreading to the territory of Russia, because Russian authorities are losing control there – according to the official statement of Kiev. It is possible that the attacks of the legionnaires serve as a distraction with regard to the Ukrainian counteroffensive.