There Are New Reports Of Growing Partisan Activity Inside Russia

The reports suggest hundreds and possibly thousands are joining these movements. 

Their activities include sabotage of critical infrastructure and assassinations, which may explain some of the dramatic recent increase in explosions and fires inside Russia. JL

John Varga reports in The Express:

A leading anti-Putin activist has told the Express that thousands of people are joining the partisan movement inside Russia and that Russian rebels wanted to carry out a programme of political assassinations, targeting more members of Putin's regime. "We are talking about thousands and thousands of people." The partisans have mainly attacked strategic targets, such as oil depots, military bases and transport infrastructure.

A leading anti-Putin activist has told the Express that thousands of people are joining the partisan movement inside Russia.

He also said that Russian rebels wanted to carry out a programme of political assassinations, targeting more members of Putin's regime

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Ilya Ponomarev, 48, is a former Russian MP who was the only member of parliament to vote against Putin's annexation of Crimea in 2014.

He has since fled the country, and has become an active campaigner for the overthrow of Putin's regime, arguing it can only be achieved through the use of force.

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Russian partisans are one element of the plan to destroy the Putin regime, along with the Legion of Free Russia, that is fighting with Ukrainian forces against the Russian army.

 

Mr Ponomarev told the Express that new recruits were flooding into the ranks of the partisans.

"On the home front, the quantity of freedom fighters is already significantly higher than the number of people that are at the front (in Ukraine), but both numbers are growing," he said.

"They're not growing maybe to the scale that I would personally like to see, but already we are talking about thousands and thousands of people."

The partisans have mainly attacked strategic targets, such as oil depots, military bases and transport infrastructure.