A Neo-Nazi terrorist organization founded by two Americans has taken credit for assassinating a Ukrainian intelligence officer in Kyiv last week. Colonel Ivan Voronych of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) was gunned down in broad daylight last week by a masked assailant in a Kyiv parking lot, with a Ukrainian chapter of The Base, an internationally proscribed white power group, claiming responsibility for the attack. The Base, which originated as an American extremist movement, has reportedly been offering payments for targeted killings and infrastructure attacks in Ukraine, and claimed the killing of Voronych was “not the end, but the beginning” in a statement on Telegram. Its founder, Rinaldo Nazzaro—a former FBI and Pentagon contractor from New Jersey now living in Russia—has long been accused of being a Kremlin spy, which he denies. Since March, The Base has intensified its operations in Ukraine, previously claiming credit for arson attacks and waging a self-described “insurgency” in the Zakarpattia region in an attempt to establish an all-white ethnostate. Nazzaro has since denied knowledge or involvement in the assassination, but has previously endorsed The Base’s activities in Ukraine. In 2018, The Base was subject to a wide-ranging FBI counter-terror crackdown which saw many of its cells disbanded. However, it has since been redoubling its recruitment efforts in the U.S. and Europe.
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