Russia is transporting its Rosgvardiya police officers to temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to combat Ukrainian resistance, according to the National Resistance Center (NRC). The official reason for increasing police presence is the high level of so-called extremism. According to the NRC, in totalitarian Russia, extremism is defined as anything that contradicts the Kremlin’s will. In the case of the occupied territories, a love for one’s homeland labels one as an extremist. “The deployment of police is intended by the Russian authorities to relieve the army, which is currently conduc…