For at least 18 months, Ukraine has been waging a not-so-secret sabotage campaign in Russia, targeting everything from border-town pipelines to the Kremlin itself. Then there's a shadowy assassination campaign that has targeted Ukrainians and Russians, with responsibility all but falling on Ukraine.
In a sandy ravine outside Kyiv, a group of soldiers in camouflage were learning the basics of warfare in Russian. They were a varied group both ethnic Russians with long-standing opposition views and members of Siberia's minority ethnic groups.
‘Sooner or later Russia will be one big concentration camp, basically it already is’, says a Russian fighter, among dozens in a new Ukraine battalion prepared to fight against their fellow citizens.