The Interbrigades () is a volunteer movement organized by the unregistered Russian

National Bolshevik National Bolshevism, whose supporters are known as National Bolsheviks and colloquially as Nazbols, is a syncretic political movement committed to combining ultranationalism and Bolshevik communism. History and origins In Germany Nation ...

political party "The Other Russia" to participate in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine on the side of the

Donetsk People's Republic The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR; , ) is Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupied territory in Ukraine that the Russian Federation has claimed to annex and declared as a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia, comprising parts o ...

and the

Luhansk People's Republic The Luhansk People's Republic (LPR; , ) is a disputed territory administered as a republic of Russia in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, with its capital in Luhansk. The LPR was proclaimed by Russian-backed paramilitar ...

. The Interbrigade movement, according to its members, was formed in May 2014. According to

Zakhar Prilepin Yevgeny Nikolayevich Prilepin (; born 7 July 1975), writing as Zakhar Prilepin (), and sometimes using another pseudonym, Yevgeny Lavlinsky (), is a Russian writer, politician and paramilitary leader. He was a member of Russia's National Bolsh ...

, a former member of the Other Russia, by January 2015 the movement had transported over 2,000 fighters to

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. According to the published sources of the rebel group, they took part in the battles for Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, and also were engaged in the protection of the leader of the "Other Russia"

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during his visit to the Luhansk region. Also, according to the activists of the "Interbrigades" and the "Other Russia", the movement is engaged in the delivery of humanitarian aid. In the conflict around the murder of

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, the Interbrigades sided with the leadership of the LPR,

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. One prominent member was

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n National Bolshevik

Beness Aijo Benes Khristoferovich Ayo (, ; born 8 June 1979), also known by his nickname "Black Lenin" (), is a Latvian-born Russian political activist and soldier. He has been active in the National Bolshevik movement since 1998 and has been repeatedly ar ...

, nicknamed "Black Lenin".

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Interbrigades on telegram

Interbrigades on YouTube

Interbrigades
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