Vladyslav Ammosov, former officer of Russia's GRU military intelligence service, wants to create a Siberian volunteer battalion.
Vladislav Ammosov spent 15 years in the Russian armed forces and served as an officer in Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate, the GRU.
Hailing from the far-flung Siberian city of Yakutsk, Ammosov has now told U.S. government-funded outlet Radio Free Europe that he was in the final stages of creating a volunteer military unit called the"Siberian Battalion." "The enemies of my homeland are those who currently support this Putin government," he said. He is prepared to be part of"a sabotage and reconnaissance group to go into Russian territory and destroy enemies there."
This screengrab shows Vladyslav Ammosov, a former Russian army officer from Yakutsk, giving an interview given to Radio Free Europe. He said he has changed sides to Ukraine and is looking to set up a Siberian battalion to fight against Vladimir Putin's troops.He admitted that he had previously been taken in by Russian propaganda and been trained"to destroy entire countries."
A participant in the Second Chechen War, he said he had been swayed by how people in the predominantly Muslim republic in Russia's Caucasus had fought hard for their freedom against Moscow's troops.service by the time Putin had illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. Following Putin's full-scale invasion in 2022, he came to Kyiv through the Civil Council in Poland, which recruits volunteers to fight for Ukraine.
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