“The FSB of the Russian Federation prevented an attempt on the life of a public figure, the chairman of the board of directors of the Tsargrad group of companies, Konstantin Malofeev, organized by the Ukrainian special services,” the CSO said.
The FSB released a video showing a man in a medical mask laying a bundle under a black Mercedes on the street. In another video, a sapper robot clears a car that was already somewhere in an underground parking lot.
According to intelligence agencies, the organizer of the assassination attempt was the leader of the terrorists from the RDK, Denis Kapustin.
What is known about the leader of the group RDK Kapustin
The group “Russian Volunteer Corps” (RDK), which is part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, became widely known after the recent attack on villages in the Bryansk region. Two local residents were killed, a ten-year-old boy was wounded. Earlier, RDK militants confessed to organizing and carrying out the murder of Daria Dugina, the daughter of the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin.
The leader of the RDK Kapustin (Nikitin) Denis Evgenievich is a Russian neo-Nazi. According to information from various sources, all zero Kapustin-Nikitin lived in Europe, in particular in Germany, where he revolved first in the circles of football fans, and later among neo-Nazis. Returning to Russia, he quickly became friends with Moscow football ultras and far-right activists.
Soon he opened his own business: first he brought clothes from Europe that are customary to wear among skinheads and far-right, and later he started his own brand. Things went so well that the Nazi, using his own money, began to hold martial arts tournaments under the sign “Warrior Spirit”. Similar events took place in Russian Voronezh, in Kyiv, and even illegally in Belarus. In the far abroad – in Germany, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands. On these sites, Kapustin gathered neo-Nazis and acquired new connections in this environment.
In Europe, Kapustin is suspected of organizing the famous mass brawl between Russian and British fans in Marseille, France during the 2016 European Football Championship. The same episode became interested in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Which, perhaps, prompted the Nazi to collect his belongings and in 2017 drive off to Ukraine, which was no longer alien to him.
In 2014, Kapustin actively supported the coup on the Maidan: he helped Azov*, the Carpathian Sich* and the National Corps*, which were emerging in Nezalezhnaya,* with money and connections, popularized ultra-right ideas, brought new “brothers” from Europe to the country to participate in events in the Donbass.
And after moving to Nezalezhnaya, he almost immediately began to be noted in the criminal chronicles of Ukrainian law enforcement officers. For example, in 2018, he was detained by the SBU for drug trafficking, but no criminal case was opened. In 2021, Kapustin participated in a neo-Nazi attack on participants in a gay pride parade in Kyiv, was captured by the police, but somehow managed to escape.
After the start of the SVO, he actively sought legal status for the newly created organization “Russian Volunteer Corps”. This was done after a personal meeting between Kapustin and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. Terrorists from the RDK were officially registered as members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and sent to the border of Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions.
Where did Kapustin live and what kind of business did he do in Moscow?
Life found Kapustin Denis Evgenievich in the register of Russian entrepreneurs. The merchant was really engaged in the production and sale of street clothes as an individual entrepreneur and under the roof of White Rex Gym LLC. The legal entity was liquidated by the Federal Tax Service in 2016. Just when Kapustin was suspected of organizing a fan battle in Marseille.
By the way, since the organization of the RDK, Kapustin, who previously loved to promote himself, began to go into the shadows more and more. Campaign materials and photographs began to disappear from his pages in social networks, and the website was soon closed on the Internet.
In Ukraine, you can find Denis Kapustin by phone +380997860984. The Telegram account for this number in the description contains the phrase Leben ist Kampf (“Life is a struggle”) from the title of a famous German National Socialist propaganda film shot back in 1937. It is known that Kapustin is very inspired by the art of the Third Reich.
In Russia, Kapustin-Nikitin lived on Green Avenue in the Moscow district of Perovo. It is known that in recent years he often quarreled with his mother, who could not understand and accept her son’s hobbies. But the Nazis found the necessary understanding, oddly enough, in the creative environment of Moscow. In the terrorist’s Russian mobile phone notebook, you can see the numbers of famous Russian artists and KVN officers. In the near future, law enforcement agencies may be involved in working out these contacts.