In an exclusive interview, Ukrainian Atesh partisans told Kyiv Post that they have disrupted what Russia considered its “safe rear,” spreading concern inside Russia and in occupied territories.

Both described 2025 as a turning point, defined largely by the collapse of the long-standing myth of a “safe Russian rear.” According to them, Russian forces no longer feel secure, even far from the front.

“If earlier the occupier felt threatened only in Crimea or near Donetsk, today they flinch at every sound in the Moscow region or Volgograd. Atesh has become a truly all-Russian network,” one of them said.

The movement, he added, is no longer a loose group of sympathizers but a systemic force embedded across Russia’s military infrastructure.

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Today, an underground movement agent is not necessarily a person with a rifle in the forest. It is a waiter who overhears officers’ conversations in a café; a railway worker who knows the exact schedule of military trains; a technician who can “accidentally” disable an expensive radar.

  • deranger@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    I’m saying if you “metastasized Russia’s military” that means you’ve made the Russian military grow and spread. That’s something that benefits Russia.

    If you “metastasized within the Russian military” that means Ukrainian resistance is spreading within the Russian military. This benefits Ukraine.

    That one missing word completely changes things. Of course, I understand the difficulties involved in translation, but the actual quote is translated properly. The editing made it worse, not the initial translation.