The Ukrainian wing of an internationally forbidden far -right terrorist organization with suspicious interconnections with Russia claims to be involved in the murder of an intelligence officer in Kiev, the Guardian notes.

The “base”, as it is called, said that the murder of Ivan Voronic was “only the beginning”.

At the end of last week, a masked perpetrator shot and killed the Colonel of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) Ivan Voronic as he walked in a Kiev parking lot at noon. Shocking shots from the murder were released in the Ukrainian media and caused disruption to the capital’s residents.

For months, the “base”, founded in the US and has a nucleus network around the world, offers money to supporters or willing participants for targeted murders and attacks on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, coinciding with the claims that its American founder, Rinaldo, was a rumor. Ukrainian authorities have also warned in recent weeks of similar operations of Russian secret services that pay secretly unsuspecting citizens of sabotage inside their country.

‘It’s not the end, but only the beginning’

“The shooting of the SBU Colonel is not the end, but only the beginning,” a statement posted on a channel on the Telegram, which appears to be linked to the supposed Ukrainian core of the “base”. “We will continue our struggle until justice prevails,” the statement added.

In the same post, translated by the Ukrainians, it is noted that the team members are “proud of our partners” who made the assassination and said they did not care if their denialists consider “terrorists and extremists”. In another message to subscribers, the account also threatens other public figures in Ukraine and promises: “Hunting continues!”

Sources in the field of anti -terrorism have examined the suspension and said they seem to be reliable and represent a escalation from the “base”, which is now either applauding murders within Ukraine, actively assigned them, or both.

On Sunday, SBU announced that it had killed the two suspects who, he says, had been instructed and provided with a pistol to assassinate Voronych on behalf of the “Russian Special Services” operators. Other media in Ukraine reported that the killers were foreign nationals associated with criminal groups and supported by Russian secret services.

The base

In April, the “base” began to conduct what it described as an uprising to establish an exclusively white ethnic in the region of Zakarpatia of Western Ukraine. So far, a video with incendiary attacks on vehicles appear to be police and military.

Nazzaro, who has served in the US Special Forces, refused to comment on the Ukrainian core of the “base” and the murder when the Guardian contacted his Telegram account.

“I have no personal involvement in this incident and I do not know who is responsible,” he added.

Previously, he had publicly supported the Telegram, the team’s businesses in Ukraine and said they were supervised by members within the country he did not control.

“The ‘base’ is extremely active in Ukraine since March and has carried out at least 10 inflammatory attacks aimed at infrastructure and buildings across the country,” said Steven Ray, an analyst at the Institute of Strategic Dialogue (ISD), who is closely monitoring online activities. “They have repeatedly threatened with various terrorist acts, including acts of sabotage and murder of Ukrainian government officials.”

Rai continued: “Although we cannot confirm whether the ‘base’ was really responsible for the recent murder of a SBU official, this action is largely consistent with those who have been threatening to have been doing for months and shows the seriousness of the threat they are.”

In 2018, the “base” became the subject of FBI investigation that led to dozens of arrests and forced governments around the world to call it a terrorist organization. Recently, the “base” has doubled the recruitment efforts in Europe and, with several new national cores across Epirus – has regenerated its ranks within the US and is developing abroad – just when the Trump government continues to withdraw FBI resources from domestic investigations.

Nazzaro, who lives the life of an American apostate in St. Petersburg with his Russian wife and family, has been denied for years with any relationship with Russian intelligence, reaching the point of declaring a television channel controlled by the Kremlin that he had not been “not contacted”.

But Nazzaro’s public history shows the opposite: The base web fingerprints are largely based on Russian digital infrastructure, with the recruitment mail using a mail.ru address – the e -mail service owned by Putin’s ally. Nazzaro has never been publicly accused in the US, but has been the subject of an investigation by the FBI and was once described as a “issue” of the Ministry of Justice by a US government official.