Colonel Igor Girkin Presses Kremlin to Expand Its War Through Southern and Eastern Ukraine
“The Shooter” is back. Colonel Igor Girkin, the career Russian intelligence officer who disappeared three months ago from his leading role in the Russian-sponsored war against Ukraine, has burst anew into Russia’s news headlines. He has given a spate of interviews in which he presses Russia’s government to step up direct military support for the two “people’s republics” it is backing in southeastern Ukraine. …read more
Source: Atlantic Council