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Denis Nikitin / Kapustin, aka White Rex, leader of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), a unit of Russian neo-nazis created by Ukrainian military intelligence, has been killed at the front.

The RDK announced it on their social media, claiming that he was killed by a Russian FPV drone on the frontlines of the Zaporizhzhia oblast.

Kapustin was quite an important figure in the global neo-nazi scene. As a child, he received a visa to move from Russia to Germany. A rather special visa — for those of Jewish descent. This didn’t stop him from opening a white nationalist merchandise network called ‘White Rex’, which also became his nickname. Eventually wanted for violent crimes in both the EU and Russia, he found a welcome home in Ukraine. After 2022, Ukraine’s military intelligence gathered the motley crew of Russian neo-nazis around Nikitin to create the Russian Volunteer Corps.

Nikitin’s strategy of opening MMA fight clubs for racially conscious whites only has become popular for neo-nazis around the world. Nikitin and his Russian emigre friends in Ukraine also played a major role in glorifying the 2019 Christchurch massacre, translating the racist manifesto into Russian numerous times.

Nikitin also played a direct role in aiding neo-nazi forces as far away as the southern hemisphere. Australian media was already writing in 2021 of Nikitin’s influential role and even direct involvement in organizing Australia’s ‘National Socialist Network’, which nowadays is becoming more and more visible.

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Nikitin’s RDK has in fact lost a number of troops to frontline fighting in recent weeks. One week ago, RDK media put out obituaries for a number of its fighters.

According to Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Shariy, Nikitin died fighting for the southern town of Huliaipole. I’ll cover the situation there tomorrow, but what’s important is that the city is now essentially lost to the Russians. The RDK was chucked in to try and salvage a disastrous situation.

Things are clearly bad at the frontlines if the likes of the RDK are being thrown into dangerous assault missions. There clearly just isn’t enough dispensable infantry left. Now it’s up to the RDK, which was originally intended as a psywar tool to undermine Russian society, rather than an infantry assault unit.

An ignominious fate for the RDK. This is a very well-funded unit, with support from powerful Russian (-Israeli) oligarchs like Leonid Nevzlin. The RDK is one of the star units of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR), and its leaders constantly go on interviews, playing the part of the fearless special op superhero.

The infantry deficit must be quite bleak if UA is throwing their media battalions into already lost cities.

My "hope" in this regard is that culture war bullshit will lose its influence as material conditions worsen and take precedence because stripping trans people of rights and disappearing into concentration camps will only let people ignore rising rent and food costs for so long. Not to ignite a Mamdani struggle session (whether he follows through on his platform is a whole other thing), but I think his campaign win points in that direction. Trump-voting reactionaries didn't give enough of a shit that he's pro queer rights to not vote for him, because he was offering them better conditions.

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Damn, what a wild life to have lived. I feel like I remember hearing an interview with him not too long ago. I want to say it was on a podcast like Rev Left Radio or something. It was a very interesting listen from what I can remember.

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Somehow even worse than the edgy 2nd wave black metal guys who named all their bands after LOTR stuff. They at least had to skim the actual books.

Why does this guy look like a half remembered image of Finkelstein with hair

That's the one kind of refreshing thing about the Trump admin is that they just fucking say the whole deal out loud, usually no pretense or window dressing or anything. "Yeah, we're gonna murder more Venezuelan fishers until something changes and some Very Important and Smart People assured me that this was Definitely A Good Idea."

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