Overview
- GUR released video showing Denis Kapoustine alive in conversation with its chief Kyrylo Budanov.
- The agency says the staged death helped identify members of Russian special services who sought to assassinate him.
- An anonymous GUR official said $500,000 earmarked for the killing was obtained during the operation.
- Kapoustine, known as White Rex from far-right and hooligan circles, said he is ready to return to the combat zone and resume command.
- The tactic echoes Ukraine’s 2018 fake-death operation involving journalist Arkadi Babchenko.