Kremlin critic killed in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region: reports
Ildar Dadin was hailed as a ‘fearless and determined fighter’ after he died on combat
Anti-Kremlin activist Ildar Dadin, who was imprisoned in Russia for protesting against Vladimir Putin, was killed on the front line in Ukraine where he was fighting alongside Kyiv forces, his relatives and Russian media said Sunday.
“It is with deep regret that I must inform you that Ildar Dadin – call sign Gandhi – died yesterday in combat in the Kharkiv region” in northeast Ukraine, his friend and former Russian MP Ilia Ponomarev, who is living in exile, announced on Facebook.
He hailed Dadin as a “fearless and determined fighter” who had gone “to the front to fight Putinism”.
Dadin, 42, had fought alongside Ukrainian armed forces in a “Siberian battalion”, according to Ponomarev, and then in the “Freedom Legion of Russia”, a group claiming to be made up of Russians and responsible for several incursions into the country.
His death was confirmed on Telegram by Russian journalist Ksenia Larina and several other independent Russian media outlets.
