Russian defectors planning "surprise" after forays across border

Two groups of Russian fighters serving with the Ukrainian Armed Forces are planning an operation that will "surprise" Moscow, months after they crossed into Russia's Belgorod region and claimed to seize a village, according to a Ukrainian intelligence official.

The Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC) and the Freedom of Russia Legion have disappeared from the media because they are "preparing for extensive operations" that aim to strike critical targets inside Russia, Vadym Skibitsky, the deputy head of Ukraine's defense Intelligence agency (GUR), told Ukrainian publication Ukrainska Pravda in an interview published Wednesday.