The American neo-Nazi group with the leader of Russia calls for targeted attacks in Ukraine | US News

A American neonazi terrorist group with a leader based in Russia calls on assassinations and targeted attacks against Ukraine’s critical infrastructure in order to destabilize the country because it makes cease-fire negotiations with the Kremlin.

The basis, which has a network of cells around the world, was founded in 2018 and has become the subject of an inquiry against incessant FBI terrorism which has led to several arrests and global governments officially designating it as a terrorist organization.

Now, with the Trump administration pulling the FBI to continue the extreme right, the base, without control, tries to export its violence abroad.

This is the first time that the base has been read openly to the wider geopolitical objectives of the Kremlin, a sudden change experts indicates that its probable involvement in Russian sabotage and propaganda operations is currently carried out across Europe.

The founder and leader of the base, Rinaldo Nazzaro, a semi-defected American who worked with American special forces during the war against terrorism and now lives in St. Petersburg, has been suspicious for years to be a Russian intelligence asset. Even the members of the base thought he was a spy and got tired of the source of his cash flows.

“Given Russia’s links with the management of the base, in particular by offering a sanctuary to its chief Rinaldo Nazzaro, there is a good chance that this could very well be a Russian intelligence operation,” said Colin Clarke, expert in geopolitics and director of research at the Soufan Center.

“Supporting and directing violent non -state actors, including violent extremists with racial and ethnic motivation, is only another tool in the hybrid war tools of the Kremlin, and that Moscow has repeatedly demonstrated that it is ready to use.”

In Telegram posts, the base offers money to volunteer agents and recruits to carry out attacks on “electric power plants, military and police vehicles, military and police staff, government buildings, (Ukrainian) politicians”, in particular in Kyiv and other cities in Ukraine.

The base had previously shown that it could obtain funding from cryptocurrency vectors and allegedly unknown Nazzaro funds.

“The remains of the Ukrainian authorities include their weakness, we also understand it,” said the base. “The moment is now.”

The plan was unveiled online last week and supports a wider offer to carve out a white nationalist enclave in the Zakarpattia region in Ukraine, which the base describes as having an “accident mountainous land which is a force of force for an unconventional paramilitary force”.

Downloaded next to several of the messages were around 50 videos, from the end of March, captured using a geotagging application generated automatically. They generally show that members supposed to capture symbols painted by spraying the basic cell of Ukraine on various walls in urban places, the first sets being in kyiv and in the port city of Odessa in the Black Sea.

A recent set of videos shows eight from the southern city of Mykolav and ten showing locations in Kharkiv, a city close to the first lines and where Ukrainian intelligence has kept a particularly attentive eye on Russian saboteurs.

“A financial reward for successful action is possible,” said legend with post Kharkiv.

The latest article in the Ukrainian cell of the base now requests donations to an anonymous monero portfolio.

The Guardian examined all the videos for their authenticity and they seemed recently taken in each of the cities.

The Ukrainian ambitions of the base comply with a major discussion subject of the Kremlin since its large-scale invasion of Ukraine: casting of aspersions on the government of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, himself a Jewish man, as a sort of new third Reich. While Russia has long sought to portray Ukraine as a bastion for the extreme right – even if it houses Nazzaro, uses a neonazia militia alongside its soldiers and has alliances with European fascists.

E -mail at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, questioning the base and the presence of Nazzaro in Russia, remained unanswered.

The reality of the real presence of the base in Ukraine is currently uncertain and is unlikely to be important. In 2019, Ukrainian security services expelled one of the members of the base for its neonazi activities and trying to enlist in their soldiers. Although they have tried and failed, it is rare for the extreme right groups of the United States to export any real influence in Ukraine.

Nazzaro argued several times that he was not affiliated with any espionage agency, even making a strange appearance on the Kremlin State television in 2020, telling a journalist that he “had never had contact with Russian security services”.

But, curiously, the articles calling for attacks against Ukraine appeared for the first time on the VK account of the base, which is hosted in Russia and managed by Nazzaro. The main recruitment email for the base is also an email address.RU – The email supplier of a well -known ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

No public accusation was brought against Nazzaro, but he was the subject of an FBI investigation and was once called a Ministry of Justice “the case” by an official of the United States government.

“I think that means that Nazzaro remains under the thumb of Russian intelligence,” said Clarke, about the last Nazzaro ploy in Ukraine. “Russia likes to collect these types of” useful idiots “which he can then use to do his dirty job.”

Clarke continued: “Nazzaro must simply do what Russian intelligence does it, because it has extremely limited options given its role as head of a transnational neonazi organization.”

Reached Telegram, Nazzaro said that Ukrainian base operations are “not led by the Russian government” and it is not.

“I have never had contact with Russia’s security services,” he added.

This is not the first time that the base, which has made recent progress in the reconstruction of its American members, has started to appear in Europe. Last year, members were arrested in Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy, where the authorities repressed a basic cell which, according to her, had links with a network of Russian far-right terrorists recruited from Telegram.

“While neonazi accelerates often exaggerate their scope, it is undeniable that the resurgence of the base,” said Steven Rai, an analyst of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue which monitors the world extremism of the surveillance organization which identified the articles of Ukraine from the online base.

Rai pointed out that the base “does not bluff” and that since 2023 she has shown himself in nearly 10 countries, especially in February when the British terrorism police arrested a 15 -year -old boy for plotting attacks against synagogues.

“Base operations in Ukraine must be taken seriously,” said Rai, “because they have repeatedly demonstrated an ability to attract new recruits which then carried out acts of catastrophic violence”.