Overview
- RVC said Denis Kapustin, 41, also known as Denis Nikitin and White Rex, was killed overnight during a mission in southeastern Ukraine.
- The announcement on the group’s Telegram channel vowed revenge and said further details would follow an internal investigation.
- Preliminary accounts point to a first-person-view drone strike on the southern front, a detail not yet independently verified.
- Kapustin founded the far-right RVC in 2022 with a stated aim of overthrowing Vladimir Putin and creating an ethnic Russian state.
- The militia has mounted cross-border raids into Russia’s border regions, and Russian authorities later listed Kapustin as a terrorist extremist and placed him on a wanted list; he has been barred from the Schengen area since 2019.