Mysterious group takes claim for high-profile murders
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/mysterious-group-takes-claim-for-high-profile-murders-386483.html
The recent assassinations have been blamed alternatively on either Ukrainian nationalists or Russian intelligence agencies and have re-ignited speculation about possible links between the Kremlin and some Ukrainian ultranationalist groups. According to another version, Kalashnikov and Buzina were killed by ex-Yanukovych allies to prevent them from giving testimony.
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Political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Penta research group, wrote on Facebook on April 17 that a group calling itself the Ukrainian Insurgent Army had sent him an e-mail taking responsibility for the murder of Kalashnikov and Buzina. They also claimed they were responsible for the deaths of former Yanukovych associates Mykhailo Chechetov, Oleksandr Peklushenko and Stanislav Melnyk earlier this year. According to the police, Chechetov, Peklushenko and Melnyk committed suicide.
The unknown group borrowed its name from nationalist leader Roman Shukhevych’s Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought against Nazi and Soviet troops in 1942-1956 and is demonized by the Kremlin to this day.
“We are launching a ruthless insurgency against the anti-Ukrainian regime of traitors and Moscow’s lackeys, and from now on we will speak to them only in the language of arms until they are completely eliminated,” the group said, as cited by Fesenko.
To prove its links to the murders, the organization said that Kalashnikov had been killed with two weapons with calibers of 7.65х17 and 9х18. They also said that Kalashnikov had shot his pistol before he was killed.
“This just confirms my suspicion that Russian intelligence agencies are behind these people, though the killers themselves may not even know this,” Fesenko wrote. “The statement also gives us grounds to suspect that the campaign of assassinations will continue and may be directed against top government representatives.”
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Analysts have speculated that Russia allegedly uses some Ukrainian nationalists to present Ukraine as a “fascist” country and to destabilize the political situation.
One of those accused, Dmytro Korchinsky, used to cooperate with Alexander Dugin, a pro-Kremlin Russian imperialist who has called for killing Ukrainians. Korchinsky was on the board of Dugin’s International Eurasian Union before falling out with his Russian ally in 2007. In 2005 Korchinsky trained Russia’s Nashi pro-Kremlin youth group on ways to combat “color revolutions.”
Secret services often attempt to influence nationalist groups to use them for their goals, Fesenko told the Kyiv Post.
“Intelligence agencies often act this way,” he said. “They use local nationalist groups and plant moles there. They give them ideas and funding.”
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