Contributor / Getty Images 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), a battalion of far-right Russians who fight for Ukraine against Putin, was reported to have been killed in a drone strike in Zaporizhia on December 27 after spending months atop the Kremlin’s most wanted list. “We will definitely avenge you, Denis,” the RVC wrote in a Telegram post ‘confirming’ Kapustin’s death. “Your legacy lives on.” Read more at The Daily Beast.