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15 Apr, 5 tweets, 3 min read
NEW: US sanctions "known Russian agent" Konstantin Kilimnik, Paul Manafort's man in Kyiv, for attempting to influence the 2020 election. He's wanted by the FBI, which is offering a reward of up to $250,000 for info leading to his arrest. He's currently in/near Moscow.
Here's some of my reporting and interviews with Kilimnik over the years: rferl.org/a/paul-manafor…
And this, with audio: rferl.org/a/person-a-in-…
And this: buzzfeednews.com/article/christ…
Oho! The US says about Kilimnik: "At Yanukovych’s direction, Kilimnik sought to institute a plan that would return Yanukovych to power in Ukraine." home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…

Kilimnik told me in an interview about this plan, which I first wrote about here: rferl.org/a/ukraine-russ…

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15 Apr
Meanwhile, intelligence agency leaders are testifying in a House Intel Committee hearing on global threats.
c-span.org/video/?510634-…

FBI Director Wray discussed domestic extremism and the "salad bar" ideology, or ideology hopping, of extremists.
Wray, on anarchist violent extremists/antifa (Republicans brought it up), says when it comes to them sometimes there's tendency to view how structured & organized something is as a proxy for how seriously threatening something is. "Those two things don't necessarily conflate."
Wray did say, however, that anarchist violent extremism is a threat, and he's not minimizing the threat they pose. He added that the number of investigations in the area has "dramatically increased" on his watch.
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13 Apr
"Extremists who espouse an often overlapping mix of white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and exclusionary cultural-nationalist beliefs have the most persistent transnational connections," says @ODNIgov. "The threat from this diffuse movement...has increased since 2015."
@ODNIgov Violent extremists were responsible for 26
lethal attacks that killed more than 141 people and for dozens of disrupted plots in the West since 2015. While the extremists often see themselves as part of a global movement, most attacks were carried out by individuals, small cells.
"Australia, Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom consider white racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, including Neo-Nazi groups, to be the fastest growing terrorist threat they face." - @ODNIgov
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12 Apr
Last week @RepSlotkin sent a letter to @SecBlinken asking @StateDept to designate foreign white supremacist groups "Foreign Terrorist Organizations." Among them, Ukraine's "Azov Battalion," which is now Azov Regiment & officially part of Nat'l Guard. I have the letter & her list: Image
@RepSlotkin @SecBlinken @StateDept I've done extensive reporting on the Azov Battalion/Regiment, and the broader Azov movement. Here's my 2018 report on it Azov "going global" and attracting Americans and Europeans. rferl.org/a/azov-ukraine…
Azov might be a National Guard regiment, but Americans are still coming to Kyiv to try to link up with it and its far-right extremist veterans. As I reported in October, 2 US men tied to Atomwaffen Division were deported after trying to connect with Azov: buzzfeednews.com/article/christ…
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9 Apr
NEW: For years I've researched men who go to fight with Ukraine's far-right units. This story of a US Army vet charged with killing a Florida couple and an examination of his exploits provides a stark example of the impact of one American’s radicalization buzzfeednews.com/article/christ…
Since Russia invaded the Donbas and sparked a war in 2014, Ukraine has attracted Americans who want to fight alongside far-right paramilitary forces. Now people are beginning to ask: What happens when radicalized soldiers like Craig Lang return home? buzzfeednews.com/article/christ…
Lang deserted the Army & later traveled to Ukraine to fight with Right Sector, an extremist paramilitary force that welcomed volunteers. By the time he returned to America, he had grown increasingly radicalized & relished violence, fellow fighters & friends told me. 📸Timo Vogt
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8 Apr
As things heat up in eastern Ukraine, I spoke to friends and sources in Ukrainian controlled Avdiivka and Mariinka, and Russia-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk. All described seeing more military vehicles and soldiers on the move; increased shooting and shelling around them.
In Mariinka: 'There's tension in the air, fear and uncertainty in the eyes of people. But we're living & waiting [for whatever's to come].'

Avdiivka: 'Loud explosions daily. There was an intense battle for 6-8 hours; it caused a big fire. We worry about Russia massing forces.'
Donetsk: 'Men being ordered to the front; a surge of military vehicles clogging the roads. Everyone's talking about a big war. Hospitals are full of COVID patients; we can't treat many wounded ppl.'

Luhansk: 'More vehicles from Russia coming across border now than in past year.'
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5 Apr
My reporting worlds are colliding. Far-right Proud Boys channels on Telegram are beginning to share Ukraine-Russia content as the war in the Donbas heats up again.
Oh no. Q channels, too.
Proud Boys and Q followers don’t seem to know quite who they’re rooting for, Ukraine or Russia. There are some contradicting statements in the channels’ and commenters’ posts. However, some are indeed on Putin’s side.
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