It's been always well known there are such people, and on both sides. On the other side notably the early local separatist leaders who came from the Russian National Unity (such as Pavel Gubarev, the first "people's governor" of Donetsk), and the special company Rusich made exclusively out of Russian and Nordic (plus one odd Italian) neo-Nazis of Germanic Pagan variety, as well as Wagner of course.
Rusich itself was absorbed into Wagner after their parent unit Batman Battalion was destroyed, and their leader Batman himself killed, by the rival seps and suspected Russian commandos in Luhansk during the bloody purges of 2015-2016. They're led by the ever babyfaced Alexei "Fritz" Milchakov, who before the war was known for only ritually sacrificing puppies for Hitler and kinda looks like a younger Elon Musk. He turned out to be a "disturbingly capable soldier", to quote someone from my conversations about it, and it's quite accurate as both distrubing and capable, and also perhaps became an Orthodox now (or at least pretends as to recruit children in Belarus).
There were even some followers of the ever memetic National Bolshevism. Limonov himself began supporting Putin in 2014. He was quite a character, for a Jew bisexual Nazi Punk he was. Some of this is mentioned this obituary but there was so much more. Russia is a special place.
It's been always well known there are such people, and on both sides. On the other side notably the early local separatist leaders who came from the Russian National Unity (such as Pavel Gubarev, the first "people's governor" of Donetsk), and the special company Rusich made exclusively out of Russian and Nordic (plus one odd Italian) neo-Nazis of Germanic Pagan variety, as well as Wagner of course.
Rusich itself was absorbed into Wagner after their parent unit Batman Battalion was destroyed, and their leader Batman himself killed, by the rival seps and suspected Russian commandos in Luhansk during the bloody purges of 2015-2016. They're led by the ever babyfaced Alexei "Fritz" Milchakov, who before the war was known for only ritually sacrificing puppies for Hitler and kinda looks like a younger Elon Musk. He turned out to be a "disturbingly capable soldier", to quote someone from my conversations about it, and it's quite accurate as both distrubing and capable, and also perhaps became an Orthodox now (or at least pretends as to recruit children in Belarus).
There were even some followers of the ever memetic National Bolshevism. Limonov himself began supporting Putin in 2014. He was quite a character, for a Jew bisexual Nazi Punk he was. Some of this is mentioned this obituary but there was so much more. Russia is a special place.