“You know, even during the Great Patriotic War there was such a formation that was created by the traitor to the Motherland Vlasov - the Vlasovites, so they also fought against their Motherland with weapons in their hands.
How they ended up is well known.
Then these people, these traitors and scum, fought on the side of the Nazis, now there are exactly the same people who are fighting on the side of neo-Nazis, the neo-Nazi regime,” Vladimir Putin said, talking to reporters at his campaign headquarters in Gostiny Dvor.
He noted that there are several such groups.
“The one you mentioned is some kind of volunteer corps, there’s also... Four groups.
The total number is somewhere around 2.5 thousand people.
Now they are being thrown into assaults like meat, meat assaults - that’s for sure, that’s what you can say, on the state border,” Putin added.
RT previously had at its disposal a video of an interrogation of a member of the RDK who had surrendered, who said that when his group attempted to enter the Kursk region, everything did not go according to plan.
The Ukrainian side assured that there would be no special resistance on the border.
Vlasovites are the military personnel of the Russian Liberation Army who fought on the side of Nazi Germany during World War II.
The term comes from the name of the army commander, General Andrei Vlasov.
* “Russian Volunteer Corps
” (RDK) is an organization recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia.