Putin Is Suddenly Facing a Second Front
Russia’s republics grow restive over what they see as a colonial war, a challenge to Putin even as Russia’s mercenary chief calls for rebellion against the country’s defense minister.
A derailed tanker train burns. A bombed military draft office smolders. A hooded figure runs into the night, leaving behind a Molotov cocktail burning at the base of a Lenin bust. These images are not from Ukraine, but rather from Russia’s little known republics.
In a series of videos — from Bashkortostan, Buryatia, Kalmykia, Sakha, Tartarstan, and Tuva — speakers appeal to their various countrymen to defect from the Russian Army and to come home and fight for independence of their indigenous homelands.
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