“How do YOU know it’s a fictional organization?”
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/sarcasm
What Is Russia’s Anti-Putin ‘National Republican Army’?
According to Ponomarev, the anti-Putin group authorized him to issue their “manifesto” via his Telegram channel “Rospartisan.” The group describes itself as consisting of Russian activists, military members, politicians who are “now fighters and partisans.”
Ponomarev said he was approached by the NRA. The group allegedly told him that it was engaged in a fight against Putin’s regime. “We have established contact with NRA fighters via our Rospartisan [Telegram] channel, which covers the rising tide of resistance in Russia. Today the NRA fighters authorized me to read their manifesto.”
In their purported statement, the NRA said its members oppose the war launched by Russia against neighboring Ukraine.
The NRA declared Putin “a usurper of power and a war criminal who amended the Constitution, unleashed a fratricidal war between the Slavic peoples and sent Russian soldiers to certain and senseless death.” It also called officials of the Russian government and regional administrations as well as security officials “accomplices of the usurper.”
The NRA said that its goal is to “overthrow” and “destroy Putin,” and warned Russian officials that if they do not resign, they will be “destroyed.”
The organization also declared its readiness to attack military facilities in Russia, and called on Russia’s security forces and the military to lay down their arms and refuse to carry out criminal orders.
The NRA called on all Russians to join their ranks and raise the “white, blue and white flag of the new Russia instead of the disgraced tricolor.”
“Wherever you are—fight like us, fight with us, fight better than us. Let’s cleanse our Motherland from filth! Victory will be ours!” the NRA said, according to Ponomarev.
“I urge everyone who is prepared to fight ‘Putinism’ not in words, but with action, to join our ranks,” he said.