


The analyst has suggested in recent YouTube live streams that he has settled around Washington, D.C. Leviev and his team fled Russia after the February 2022 invasion. Leviev is wanted in Russia on two charges of spreading “fake news” about Russian strikes on a Mariupol children’s hospital and creating a “database of evidence” of alleged Russian war crimes. Karpuk, better known as Ruslan Leviev, is a software engineer from the Urals city of Surgut who established CIT in 2014 and has studied conflicts in eastern Ukraine, Syria and Libya. Russian prosecutors claimed that CIT was created by Ruslan Karpuk - a Russian citizen - along with members of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption organization, which has been declared “extremist.”
