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He had been convicted and imprisoned for protests against the Kremlin leader. Russian opposition leader Ildar Dadin has just lost his life on the front where he was fighting alongside the Ukrainian armed forces.
On Sunday, Ilia Ponomarev, a former Russian MP and opponent of the regime in power, announced the tragic death of his friend on Facebook: “It is with deep regret that I must inform you that Ildar Dadin, in the nom de guerre of Gandhi, died yesterday in the fighting in the Kharkiv region .” He paid tribute to him by calling him a “fearless and determined fighter” who took up arms “to fight Putinism.”
Ildar Dadin first fought alongside Kiev’s forces in a Siberian battalion and then in the “Russian Freedom Legion,” a group that claims to be made up of Russians and is behind several incursions into Russia, according to the media outlet L’Indépendant . His death was confirmed by Russian journalist Ksenia Larina on Telegram.
In 2015, the Russian opposition figure was sentenced to two and a half years in prison by the Russian courts. He was accused of organizing several solo demonstrations against the authorities. In the media outlet Meduza, Ildar Dadine denounced the particularly harsh conditions of his detention, mentioning acts of torture and humiliation by the guards.
