A Ukrainian military leader on Putin’s hit-list conned the Kremlin out of $500,000 by faking his own death to collect8 the bounty, Kyiv revealed on Thursday. Denis Kapustin, a far-right military commander and founder of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC),

VLADIMIR Putin paid half a million dollars for the assassination of Russian rebel Denis Kapustin – but the tyrant was tricked. The Kremlin celebrated when news broke that Kapustin, who defied the

Ukraine faked the death of Denis Kapustin, a Russian commander fighting for Ukraine, to trick Russia into paying a bounty of $500,000 and identify Russian agents plotting his assassination, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency has said.

Russian intelligence services had long hunted Kapustin, placing a $500,000 price on his head. After news broke of his supposed assassination, Moscow paid out the bounty, not realising the money

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