Denis Kapustin, a far-right military commander and founder of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), a battalion of far-right Russians who fight for Ukraine against Putin, was reported to have been killed in a drone strike in Zaporizhia on December 27 after spending months atop the Kremlin’s most wanted list.

The NC-13 strike company's commander told Business Insider that the drone's primary objective was to suppress Russian troops from advancing for weeks.

Ukraine faked the death of Denis Kapustin, a Russian commander fighting for Ukraine, to trick Russia into paying a bounty of $500,000 and identify Russian agents plotting his assassination, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency has said.

Russian opposition representative Leonid Volkov, who lives in Lithuania, has called Ukrainian soldiers and officials Nazis. The country's Migration Service will decide whether to extend his residence permit.

EADaily, January 1st, 2026. The commander of the RDK * Denis Kapustin * * is alive, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine said on January 1.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree introducing changes to the composition of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Staff. — Ukrinform.

Over the past week, Ukraine’s top military commander has given his most detailed assessment yet of the fight to halt Russia’s invasion. This wasn’t prompted by any sudden battlefield reversal. It reflects,

Ukrainian intelligence pulled off an elaborate counterintelligence operation, faking the death of an anti-Kremlin Russian fighter to foil a Moscow assassination