Russian national Oleksiy Milchakov, who headed the "Rusich" neo-Nazi battalion fighting alongside Donbas militants, is now hired by "Wagner," Russia's major private military company, and deployed in Syria, according to the Russian outlet Fontanka, Ukrayinska Pravda reports.
A Russian lawyer for a Crimean Tatar leader who is on trial in Russian-controlled Crimea has sharply criticized the Kremlin, comparing President Vladimir Putin's Russia with Nazi Germany and suggesting officials who serve the state will face an unhappy fate, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.