hired gun ;

Dear Galow Helmut ,

I am extremely pleased that the negotiations in Munich went well with my associate, mister Yanilov. I am glad that you will be signing on to assist our Moscow operations, as that's where our effort is strained the most. I know that you have not yet stepped foot onto Russian soil, but I have already prepared an operation to say, test your mettle. As you may or may not know, one of the prime sources of intelligence for the ULF is through extortion and pillow talk from the cadre of prostitutes we employ. We also profit from selling these aforementioned agents. Fortunately, one of these very femme fatales fell right into my lap just the other day, and while I didn't catch her name -- she is an apparent sibling of a one, Sascha Vladislav. This man is a ghost, but I have discovered the necessary information on where she lives and predominantly stays during the night hours.
Her relation to the man, Vladislav is irrelevant. We have shadowed her for twenty-four hours and she has not come into contact with Vladislav nor any of his apparent associates. So we must grab her before he does! You will be acting alongside two of my most trusted operatives, Karl Markov and Igor Slan. They have kept a watch on her house now and will be prepared to brief you further on the operation when you arrive.
Attached to this document will be your plane ticket as well as a sum of 12,500 ruples for your initial services.

Aleksander Kuzichinko.

[ Message delivered to the ULF sponsored German militant, Galow Helmut. ]

striking a blow where it counts ;

" ПРИСОЕДИНИТЕСЬ К РЕВОЛЮЦИИ ПРОТИВ ИСПОРЧЕННОЙ РОССИИ "

-- propaganda newspaper headline in the Moscow slums.

We are winning the war, however slow it may be. Two weeks ago, an operation commenced on a Federalist depot just outside Sharapovo. The routine patrol was leaving toward Moscow to patrol the road, just as it did every six days. The convoy consisted of four ton and a half Ural-4320 trucks and three BTR-90 Infantry Fighting Vehicles and perhaps a platoon of Federalist soldiers. They traveled along the northwestern road, unaware of what was about to happen. Everything was going as planned, until the weather took a change for the worst. The clouds overhead let loose their torrents, and the rain fell. Hard.

There would have to be more than rain to stop us, to stop our cause. We sprung just as they crossed the bridge. Our force consisted of sixty-seven soldiers, we had a surplus of ammunition and a pair of RPG-7V's. We had intended to take the convoy and it's vehicles in one piece, but due to the over aggressive nature of the lead BTR, we had to destroy it.

Twenty-nine Russian soldiers killed. Eleven wounded and released to head back to Sharapovo. We had captured the three BTR-90's although one was completely destroyed. We had saved the 7.62x51mm co-axial light machine gun luckily, and we had disarmed the platoon of soldiers, from it -- we had taken 40 AK-74's, 28 OTs-27 9mm Pistols, and 68 HEAP Grenades. Today is a glorious day for the ULF.

today is a glorious day ;

We have started to retake the motherland -- one soldier at a time. Since the Kuzichinko's rise, we have seen only our profits increase tenfold and the ranks of our great militia expand exponentially. I feel that by the end of the year we will have the SSB and the FSB around our thumb and every mercenary from St. Petersburg to Munich under our payroll.

-- Alexei Yanilov, Krayina Milita.

May 15, 2008

Fourteen dead. Twelve wounded.

That was our sacrifice into the motherland. We held Kiev, Sumy, and Poltava under our gracious hands. We stole from the corrupt government and gave the trucks, with the food still in it to the rural populations. They loved us, and they gave us shelter when the the BTR's and the BMP's came through the countryside looking to snuff us out. Kuzichinko said he didn't want to fight his own people, battle on Ukranian soil, so many times we simply surrendered. Corruption within the judicial magistrates meant we rarely served any of our sentences.

While the Украинский Освободительный Фронт (ULF) started in 1979 in opposition to extremist Soviet influence, Kuzichinko only took the reigns in 1998, eight years after our mother country had taken back it's own freedom. There had still been people oppressed, blood spilled and a revenge not yet carried out. This is what the ULF stood for. In three years, we had secured the documents to pass a total of 1,700 natives into Moscow and St. Petersburg -- not all at once, mind you -- for the winter. Alas, here we are but six months later and we own or accommodate seven bars, one civilian government administration building, two warehouses and twenty-two FSB agents.