INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Anti-Kremlin activist Ildar Dadin, who was imprisoned in Russia for protesting against Vladimir Putin, was killed on the front line in
Ukraine where he was fighting alongside Kyiv forces, his relatives and Russian media said Sunday."It is with deep regret that I must inform
MP Ilya Ponomaryov, who is living in exile, announced on Facebook.He hailed Dadin as a "fearless and determined fighter" who had gone "to
the front to fight Putinism".Dadin, 42, had fought alongside Ukrainian armed forces in a "Siberian battalion", according to Ponomaryov, and
then in the "Freedom Legion of Russia", a group claiming to be made up of Russians and responsible for several incursions into the
country.His death was confirmed on Telegram by Russian journalist Ksenia Larina and several other independent Russian media outlets.Dadin
had been sentenced in 2015 to 2,5 years in prison in Russia for organizing protests alone against authorities.Detained in a particularly
harsh prison camp, he denounced the torture and humiliation inflicted on him by his prison guards in a letter published by independent media
Meduza in 2016.Dadin was the first Russian citizen to be convicted under a 2014 law clamping down on protests in the country.A Message from
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