Ilya Ponomaryov: ‘We Have to Capture the Kremlin. There Is No Other Way’

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opposition figure orders tea, joking that his tastes were unchanged by the fatal poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, who he says was a
personal friend.Ponomaryov has been in exile since 2016, when he moved to Kyiv after being charged with embezzlement and later impeached for
authoritarianism
the Russian people who strongly support the war, 20 who are strongly against it, and the rest are neutral
There is no other way
recognized by any state
In June, mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin managed to capture a military headquarters and the southern city of Rostov-on-Don with little
regard for popular consent
endorses but has not joined
of explosions at munitions factories and railway lines within Russia.Ponomaryov insists that anonymity is needed to protect the NRA
In 2017, Kyiv gave Ponomaryov personal protection after former Russian lawmaker Denis Voronenkov was shot dead on his way to meet him in a
everyone who is financing the war, organizing the war as government civil servants, those who own the companies who produce weapons, and
"Caesar" - deputy commander of the Freedom of Russia Legion.t.me/legionoffreedomBy pushing for a military coup in Russia, Ponomaryov goes
further than fellow dissidents Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Garry Kasparov, and he claims they uninvited him from a summit over security
I very much hope we will soon see a public alliance between us
We are getting closer every day, we already have a lot of joint events
Because, politically, the views are close
In terms of my personal relations with Garry, he is my colleague
Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine
So I would say around one-third [of leaders favor armed resistance]
the subject
We are all competing for recognition from Brussels
But once there is recognition of the government in exile and a political alternative to Putin, I believe that division among the Russian
Belarusian government-in-exile
Lukashenko uses his territory to attack Ukraine, but he is not participating directly
leader of a democratic Russia
Gaulle, only our model is the same
There has to be a military component, a resistance component, and a political alternative
in his favor, to win the elections
There is a conflict of interest
Yet this may change
On Friday, Ponomaryov is meeting U.K., EU and Ukrainian policymakers at a London conference on British and global security following the