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Jilly_in_VA

(12,450 posts)
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 11:51 AM Wednesday

Ukraine wing of US-founded terrorist group says it was involved in killing of intelligence officer in Kyiv

The Ukrainian wing of an internationally proscribed far-right terrorist organization with suspected links to Russia is claiming involvement in the brazen assassination of an intelligence officer in Kyiv.

Late last week, a masked assailant shot and killed Col Ivan Voronych of the Ukraine security service (SBU) as he walked through a Kyiv parking lot in broad daylight. Shocking footage of the assassination circulated in Ukrainian media and caused a stir among residents in the capital.

For months, the Base, born in the US and with a web of cells all over the world, has been offering money to supporters or willing participants for targeted assassinations and attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine, coinciding with allegations that its American founder, Rinaldo Nazzaro, was a Kremlin spy. Ukrainian authorities have also been warning in recent weeks of similar Russian intelligence operations covertly paying unknowing citizens to carry out sabotage inside their country.

“The shooting of the SBU colonel is not the end, but only the beginning,” said a statement posted on a Telegram channel that appears to be linked to the the Base’s supposed Ukrainian cell. “We will continue our struggle until justice prevails.”

The same post, translated from Ukrainian, added that the group’s members were “proud of our associates” who carried out the killing and said they didn’t care if naysayers thought of them as “terrorists and extremists”. In another message to subscribers, the account also threatens other Ukrainian public figures and promises: “The hunt continues!”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/16/the-base-terrorist-group-ukraine-assassination

Lovely. Just lovely. And it's because of the orange slime that such outfits exist in THIS country!

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Ukraine wing of US-founded terrorist group says it was involved in killing of intelligence officer in Kyiv (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Wednesday OP
Terrorism in service of Russia ck4829 Wednesday #1
Hey Siri, how do you say 'The Base' in Arabic ? C_U_L8R Wednesday #2
Looks like they neutralized the suspects. chowder66 Wednesday #3

ck4829

(37,005 posts)
1. Terrorism in service of Russia
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 12:20 PM
Wednesday

Last edited Wed Jul 16, 2025, 02:18 PM - Edit history (1)

The Base, the FSB… both terrorist organizations.

chowder66

(10,982 posts)
3. Looks like they neutralized the suspects.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 03:30 PM
Wednesday

On Sunday, the SBU announced it had killed the two suspects they say were instructed and supplied with a pistol to assassinate Voronych on behalf of “Russian special services” handlers. Other media reports in Ukraine reported the assassins were foreign nationals linked to criminal groups and were remotely supported by Russian intelligence.

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