Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Irena Chalupa: Russians’ once-secretive commander in Ukraine is on the air
A woman holds a poster with the portrait of Igor Strelkov, the top military commander of the self-proclaimed \"Donetsk People's Republic\" and with the slogan \"Our name is Strelkov\" during a rally in support of the self-proclaimed \"People's Republics of Donbass and Luhansk\", in Moscow on Aug. 2, 2014.
"The Shooter" is back. Colonel Igor Girkin, the career Russian intelligence officer who disappeared three months ago from his leading role in the Russian-sponsored war against Ukraine, has burst anew into Russia's news headlines. He has given a spate of interviews in which he presses Russia’s government to step up direct military support for the two "people's republics" it is backing in southeastern Ukraine.
