Overview
- RVC announced that Denis Kapustin, 41, also known as Denis Nikitin and by the nom de guerre White Rex, was killed overnight during a combat mission in southeastern Ukraine.
- The group said initial indications point to an FPV drone strike and promised further details after an internal investigation.
- No independent confirmation of Kapustin’s death or the circumstances has been provided by Ukrainian authorities or other sources.
- Kapustin founded the far-right RVC in 2022 with the stated aim of overthrowing Vladimir Putin after helping establish units that later became Ukraine’s Third Assault Brigade and Third Army Corps.
- The RVC gained prominence for cross-border raids into Russia’s Belgorod and Kursk regions, which Kyiv has said were not conducted under its orders.