Popular Russian blogger Michael Nacke and military analyst Russlan Leviev are now officially wanted by the Russian state for discrediting the army — but neither of …
Popular Russian blogger Michael Nacke and military analyst Russlan Leviev are now officially wanted by the Russian state for discrediting the army — but neither of them are in Russia right now. Nacke told Fox News the announcement about being in trouble has just added wind to his sails. „They said that I said something bad about Russian army. Everybody in the world right now says something bad about Russian army because it’s really bad“, he said. „But it’s good at killing the peaceful people of Ukraine.“
For Nacke, this war is the most horrible occurrence imaginable. He says he’s sleeping with it and waking up with it. He told Fox News that all he’s wanted to do is help in some way to make it stop, and that he’s long wondered if his work reporting on the war with Leviev daily is making any difference. „Now I have the answer, because if the Kremlin or Putin’s regime think that I’m a danger for them, that means that I am doing the right thing.“
Leviev’s experience stemmed from the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT). He said he will keep doing videos, and more of them. Nacke left Russia long before the war at a point when he felt the situation had become too ominous there. Since Feb. 24, when Russia invaded Ukraine, he and Leviev have been a tag team: Nacke the interviewer., Leviev the expert, the wonk who has studied images of military hardware on TikTok and other forms of social media, scanned open-source reports, scrutinized satellite imagery.
