Russian media identified three other participants in the attack on the Belgorod region. This is a member of the Kiev organization “Tradition and Order” (TiP) Christian Udarov, vice-president of the Ukrainian Karate Federation, one of the leaders of the battalion “Stugna” Maxim Nevmerzhitsky and a citizen Belarusian, a football fan Igor Yankov. Udarov and Nevmerzhitsky are from Kiev.
TiP is a far-right Ukrainian organization headquartered in Kiev. She rose to prominence by participating in the dispersal of LGBT events. It is headed by Bogdan Khodakovsky, a former member of Dmitry Korchinsky’s Muslim Brotherhood movement. Sergey Korotkikh (“Malyuta”, “Boatswain”), a native of Togliatti, is linked to the creation of TiP. Russia has put him on the international wanted list for the murder of two or more people motivated by national hatred.
Social networks of the association “Tradition and Order”
Udarov, according to the Strana.Ua portal, took part in the nightclub and restaurant pogroms in Kyiv and is associated with Andrei Medvedko, accused of murdering publicist Oles Buzina.
Udarov was arrested in Kyiv on February 4, 2022 for a raid on collectors at a currency exchange office near the SBU’s main office. Two of his accomplices were arrested with him. After the outbreak of the military conflict, they were released. Pictured Udarov (left) poses with a TiP flag in a village in Belgorod.
In the center of the photo with the flag is a Belarusian citizen Igor Yankov. A Dynamo Minsk football fan fled to Ukraine after becoming indicted in several criminal cases, he took part in mass protests against the election of Alexander Lukashenko as president in August 2020 and was injured during a a clash with the police. As part of the “TiP” group, he serves as a gunner.
Social networks of the battalion “Stugna”
Nevmerzhitsky is a world-class master of sports, eight-time Ukrainian champion and three-time European champion in karate. Since February 2022, as part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. I went to fight as a volunteer. Together with his colleague, karate trainer Alexander Buntsev, he took part in the attack on the Belgorod region.
The volunteer battalion “Stugna” is part of the Defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He relies on veterans of the conflict in the Donbass, soldiers of the 135th Terodefense battalion. Commander – Dmitry Linko. Previously, “Stugna” fought in Bakhmut
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