Russia Evacuates Nuclear Weapons Stockpile as 'Dissident' Invasion of Russia Continues

Monday, two Ukraine-backed Russian partisan groups, the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps, invaded Russia. According to numerous reports, the groups took control of at least five border settlements and battled with Russian security forces. These two Russian-dissident battle groups can muster over 10,000 men. How many are involved in the operation is anyone’s guess. The fighting is continuing today. This is not the first such attack; in March, the same Ukrainian-controlled Russian forces invaded the neighboring Bryansk Oblast (Putin’s War, Week 54. More NordStream Melodrama, Russia Shows Diplomatic Weakness, and the Bakhmut Flipflop). However, it is the largest attack on Russian territory since Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine.