“They could’ve liberated Kursk”: Polish war reporter on lack of Russian volunteers joining Ukraine’s cause

He shared his opinions in an interview with Espreso TV.

"Mustafa Dzhemilev (one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatar national movement – ed.) told me during an interview that Russia can only change if it loses this war, falls apart, or is occupied by democratic states. Do the Russians want that? I think most of them don’t. There are some exceptions, people who fled, who resist. I know such people. They live in Warsaw. Even those who left, honestly — I work with journalists from The Insider sometimes, we write pieces together. They really impress me, they track down KGB agents wandering around Europe, kidnapping people, killing them with Novichok. Dobrokhotov (Russian journalist and The Insider founder – ed.) and his whole team work hard to make sure there are fewer of those agents. And that’s great," he said.

Reszka added that he deeply respects them.

"But still, I wonder, why are there so few Russians fighting on Ukraine’s side? There are different legions, but there isn’t one called, say, ‘Democratic Russia,’" the journalist noted.

He stressed that some individuals are fighting, but “that’s not enough.”

“I hoped the Russians themselves would liberate the Kursk region. Ukraine doesn’t really need Kursk, but they should, they could have built a mini-democratic quasi-country there and expanded it. But there’s no will for that. And there’s no sign of a big recruitment drive for the Free Russia forces in Western Europe either, that would show things are serious. There is talk about democracy, about human rights, about changing Russia, but while the war continues, and Russia keeps attacking other countries and committing war crimes, maybe it’s time to fight that dictatorship not just with words, but with weapons,” Reszka concluded.