No, they are "Ukrainian-backed Russian separatists", to use Western media terminology uses to describe the "DNR" and "LNR"🙄
RT @NeilPHauer: "Village in Russia captured by Ukraine-backed Russian partisans" is such a surreal sentence to read, but that appears to be legitimately what happened today https://t.co/f9rRQ7RDAj

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1660631395448881156