The commander of the Russian Legion of Freedom says his fighters are planning another cross-border raid into Russian territory and are trying to take advantage of the chaos in the Kremlin after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s uprising, reports Guardian. Also, the leader of the cross-border raids says from Ukraine that to overthrow the regime in Moscow, weapons are needed, not words.

“There will be an additional surprise next month,” said Caesar, a spokesman for the anti-Putin paramilitary group. “This will be our third operation. After that, there will be a fourth and a fifth. We have ambitious plans. We want to liberate our entire territory.”

The legion, which consisted of about 200 Russian military volunteers, carried out attacks in May and early June. He occupied border villages near the Russian city of Belgorod, fought with the Russian army and captured 10 Russian soldiers. According to Caesar, two members of the anti-Kremlin militia were killed.

VIDEO The first video of the cross-border raid in Belgorod. Legion “For the will of Russia”: the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hid behind trees and fences

He called the recent incursion near Shebekino “a local raid and reconnaissance operation.” Caesar said he moved to Ukraine when the full-scale invasion began in February 2022. “The border guards escaped. I had no one to show my passport to, he joked.

A former fitness trainer in Sochi and St. Petersburg, Caesar’s real name is Maximilian Andronnikov.

He called himself a “constitutional monarchist.” He said he admired Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, and noted that the legion’s fighters included people of the left and right, as well as disillusioned supporters of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who was poisoned by the FSB and is now in prison.