He took over the training of Rusich, replacing its previous leader, Alexey Yurevich Milchakov, who was wounded during fighting in 2022. Alina Lobzina and Nataliia Novosolova contributed reporting.

A more extreme version of this can be seen with Chechen special forces commander Apti Alaudinov meeting with Alexey Milchakov, a Russian neo-nazi and leader of the paramilitary group Rusich that has ...

We could witness a showcase of ethnic sensitivities in the recent “meeting” between the commander of the special forces unit Akhmat, Lieutenant General Apti Alaudinov, and the commander of the Rusich ...

It was founded by Milchakov and has associations with the Wagner group. Milchakov, who has a passing resemblance to Musk, has long been a presence on both the battlefield and the Russian internet.

Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the “Akhmat” Chechen special forces unit, and Alexey “Serb” Milchakov, the neo-Nazi leader of the “Rusich” paramilitary assault group, have appeared together in a new ...

The co-founder of Rusich Alexey Milchakov gained notoriety for publishing images of himself killing a puppy on social media. Petrovsky has been under EU and U.S. sanctions since 2022. Ukraine war ...

He then regularly visited Russia, where he met former paratrooper and nationalist Aleksandr Milchakov. In 2014, they traveled to Ukraine’s Donbas region to support Russia-backed separatists in ...

The sabotage and reconnaissance assault group "Rusich" was created by a Nazi from St. Petersburg, Alexei Milchakov, in 2014, when he went to fight in the south-east of Ukraine. From the very ...

The focus is on Alexey Milchakov, a member of the far-right Rusich Group, which is linked to the Wagner Group. Rusich is known for its war crimes in Syria and Ukraine, including torture and mutilation ...

In April 2023, the notorious Rusich unit, founded by Russian neoNazi war criminals Alexei Milchakov and Jan Petrovsky, and now associated with the Wagner mercenary unit, posted a video showing the ...