For those who don’t know recent Ukrainian history:
This Nazi scum was one of the direct organizers of the Odessa massacre, and during the Maidan riots he was seen transporting rifles and coordinating militants at the building from where the infamous February 20 snipers started firing into the crowd.
He was a co-founder of the Neo-Nazi “Svoboda” (formerly the “Social National Party of Ukraine”) party, held a high position in the post 2014 Maidan regime as “Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council”, and had a lifelong history of involvement in the Ukrainian fascist movement and the rehabilitation of Nazi collaborator war criminals.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/08/prominent-ukrainian-fascist-shot-dead-in-lviv.html
Propably a purge of the radicals before the peacedeal to prevent a coup. Or someone pissed off by that ghouls actions did a Luigi, wouldn’t be the first time.
Could also be he knew too much, and with a collapse of Ukraine becoming more of a possibility with each day, someone high up in the western intelligence services has decided it is safer to eliminate their former assets before they could expose the depth of the west’s involvement and crimes in Ukraine.
He is not the first Ukrainian neo-nazi to get offed under suspicious circumstances that could conveniently be blamed on Russia, even though Russia has little to gain by taking out such small fish. Whether it’s internal power struggles, someone with a personal grudge, or something more co-ordinated, it’s definitely a pattern.
Anyway, speculation aside, what is most important about this is that now the Zelensky government is heroizing this piece of shit and is making a big show about promising to find his killer. Point to this next time someone tries to claim that the Kiev junta is not a through and through Nazi regime all the way to the top.
My gut says this (along with the sbu official in july) is a Russian operation meant to send a message to zelenski and other ukrainian government officials. If my instinct is right we will probably see similar assassinations in the next couple weeks. Doing this sort of hit in lviv will convince any government in exile to be out of the country completely.
My bet is he was removed because what he knows poses a danger to someone else in Maidan clique. He wasn’t first organiser of Odessa massacre assassinated. And i think those deaths weren’t revenge for Odessa, nor Russian ops because they would occur much earlier, not just when the war is nearly lost. It’s internal purge.
This doesn’t make sense. Nothing the ukraine elites have done will ever be condemned by the west. None of them are worried about prosecution for their crimes unless they get caught by Russia and in that case the evidence wouldn’t really matter. If you know you’ll never be tried for crimes why would you bother covering them up?
If there was undisputed video of a ukrainian politician shooting the protestors in Maidan square the west would treat him like a hero.
unless they get caught by Russia and in that case the evidence wouldn’t really matter
I don’t agree. Even in the case of terrorist attacks with overwhelming evidence where the perpetrators are caught red handed Russia takes months, sometimes years to go through all the formal procedures of putting them on trial, dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s to make sure everything is airtight from a legal perspective.
Remember also how the Russian government made sure to formally ratify the treaties with the DPR/LPR and lay out a solid legal justification for the SMO based in the UN charter before entering Ukraine. The current Russian government is very legalistic. The idea that Russia is some kind of rogue regime that doesn’t care about any laws and just acts like a mafia organization is a western propaganda lie.
Also, it’s not just about Russia and the West, there is a whole rest of the world outside of the collective West that Russia needs to present itself to as a rational and law abiding actor. Evidence and testimonies matter a lot for that.
And lastly, eventually there will be a neutral/pro-Russian government in Ukraine again and they will have their work cut out for them to investigate the mountain of crimes that have been committed there since 2014. Getting rid of certain publicly known figures who are likely to have a lot of dirt on the people pulling the strings behind the scenes is exactly what you would do if you wanted to make sure to bury your involvement and make it into a “he said, she said” situation.
I think that is very unlikely. This guy was no longer a player in the current government. He was effectively retired. Also, it’s completely out of character for Russia. This just isn’t their MO.
Remind me what happened to Prigozhin. You aren’t going to tell me “His plane just did that.”
Assassination is very much in Russia’s play book. They haven’t done it much in ukraine so far but there are good reasons for that. Russia has always wanted a negotiated settlement and corpses can’t sign papers. Initially zelenski was willing to negotiate.
Russia is hitting turkish and american factories, british diplomatic buildings, Armenian oil refineries. There has been a change in Russia’s attitude since the alaska meeting. Lavrov has said directly that Zelenski is illegitimate and that he needs to go before they can have a peace deal.
I’m not saying they wouldn’t do it, i’m saying they wouldn’t do it now to someone who doesn’t even play any role in the regime anymore. It would be a waste of resources to do something that in no way helps them to speed up finishing this conflict. Why wouldn’t they go after more high value targets, someone who actually plays a role in the conflict?
Prigo was different because he still posed an imminent danger, and imo it’s still unclear what exactly happened there.
My intuition says if they were to go after people like this guy they would wait until after the war is over, then they have enough time and resources to bring escaped war criminals and Nazis to justice. And with how obsessively legalistic Russia is they would probably make a point of charging and sentencing them in absentia first. It’s ok if you disagree, we’re all just speculating.
