He added that Kremlin reports of heavy losses among his guerrillas were ridiculous and exaggerated, asserting: “They dressed up dead bodies in Ukrainian uniforms and put them on TV. The legion’s armoured vehicles were mostly seized from Russian stocks captured in Ukraine, he said. He acknowledged his militia could only function with Ukrainian military help but said once on Russian territory they made their own independent decisions. Prosecutors have charged him with crimes including treason to the motherland. Russian state media has dubbed the 49-year-old Caesar an extremist and a Nazi. Critics have ridiculed the legion as a tinpot PR project run by Ukraine’s capable military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov. There was no one to show it to,” he joked.Ī former fitness coach from Sochi and St Petersburg, Caesar’s real name is Maximillian Andronnikov. Caesar, who moved to Ukraine when Moscow’s full-scale invasion began, said he packed his Russian passport. He described the recent incursion near the town of Shebekino as a “local raid and reconnaissance operation”. Two members of the anti-Kremlin militia were killed, Caesar said. It occupied border villages near the Russian city of Belgorod, skirmished with the Russian army, and took 10 Russian soldiers captive.
The legion, consisting of a few hundred Russian military volunteers, carried out attacks in May and early June.
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