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Russian Volunteer Corps leader Denis Kapustin killed in Ukraine

27 December 2025 10:55

Denis Kapustin, the commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), has been killed on the Zaporizhzhia front.

According to UNIAN, citing the RDK, Kapustin was killed in a strike carried out by a Russian FPV drone in the Zaporizhzhia direction.

Kapustin had previously been sentenced in absentia in Russia to life imprisonment on charges of organising a Ukrainian Armed Forces incursion into Russia’s Bryansk region in 2023 and committing high treason.

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