‘Under dictatorship, justice must be met with Molotov cocktails.’
That is the slogan of Black Spark, a Russian resistance group that advocates for the armed overthrowing of Vladimir Putin and works alongside Ukraine to weaken the Kremlin from within Russia itself.
The underground movement has emerged from the shadows under the public representation of Igor Volobuev, a former banking executive who defected to Ukraine after Moscow‘s full-scale invasion in 2022 and took up arms against his former homeland.
Now decorated by Ukraine and awarded the Golden Cross in the name of President Volodymyr Zelensky, Volobuev claims Black Spark has built a clandestine network
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