We won’t stop until Putin falls, say the Russians fighting against him

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/09/13/we-wont-stop-until-putin-falls-say-russians-fighting-him/

by TheTelegraph

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  1. **The Telegraph reports:**

    For “White”, going home to Russia after the war is not an option. If he does, he wants it to be in a tank to take down Vladimir Putin.

    The 26-year-old Russian volunteer has spent the past two years fighting for Ukraine – battling against his own countrymen on the front lines. His unit, under cover of darkness, has infiltrated Russia and carried out sabotage operations there.

    White, who hails from the city of Samara in Russia’s south, is one of hundreds of defectors fighting in the armed group Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK).

    “I have always wanted to live according to my ideals,” he told The Telegraph at a training camp outside Kyiv. “When the war ends, I will continue fighting until Putin falls.”

    RDK members range in age and background. Many are former Wagner Group fighters – like White. Some are ex-FSB agents and most of them are just civilians, but they share a singular commitment. “We fight to change something in Russia,” White said.

    Putin is facing a rise in disillusionment in his military’s meat-grinder war tactics, where soldiers are sent like cannon fodder to the front lines without the correct training or equipment.

    For White, he joined the RDK to exact revenge against Putin.

    When the full-scale invasion began, the former machine operator was in a high-security prison in Russia where he was serving a three-year sentence for assault.

    He was plucked from jail and given the opportunity to serve as a mercenary for Yevgeny Prigozhin’s notorious Wagner Group in exchange for having his criminal record expunged.

    But his taste of freedom was short-lived – White was soon captured by Ukraine and held captive as a prisoner of war.

    After nine months, he was offered up in a prisoner-exchange programme and given the chance to live as a free man in Russia.

    But he refused. This time, he chose to fight for Ukraine and joined RDK in June 2023.

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