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Alexey Milchakov, who named Adolf Hitler as his inspiration, previously boasted about desecrating the corpses of slain Ukrainian soldiers. A Russian neo-Nazi accused of war crimes has delivered a classroom session to pupils at a secondary school in St Petersburg as part of Vladmir Putin’s “Lessons in Courage” programme. Alexey Milchakov, who established the far-right paramilitary group Rusich alongside others, has been fighting for Russian forces in Ukraine since 2014. The unit shared photographs from the school visit in the city’s Kirovsky district, where Milchakov addressed students. The programme deploys veterans from the Ukraine conflict to educational institutions across Russia, with authorities presenting it as a method for reintegrating returning soldiers into civilian life. Alexey Milchakov has been fighting for Russian forces in Ukraine since 2014 | X The investigative team Systema from RFE/RL identified the school, which posted that Rusich members had visited to discuss the war and encourage children to write letters to troops. Milchakov first gained widespread attention in 2011 when, aged 20, he recorded himself torturing, dismembering and consuming a puppy before publishing the footage online. At the time, he posted on VKontakte, the Russian social media platform, calling for the killing of “homeless people, puppies and children”. He has previously described himself openly as a Nazi and named Adolf Hitler as his inspiration.

via gbnews: Russian neo-Nazi infamous for eating a puppy sent to teach children ‘lesson in courage’

siehe auch: Puppy-eating neo-Nazi sent to teach children ‘lesson in courage’ Rusich co-founder Alexey Milchakov photographed with Russian schoolchildren as top-down reforms continue. An alleged war criminal and neo-Nazi who gained notoriety for posting photos of himself torturing and killing a puppy was sent to teach children at a Russian school. Alexey Milchakov, who co-founded the far-Right neo-Nazi paramilitary unit Rusich (DShRG), which has been fighting on the side of Russia in Ukraine since 2014, led a “Lesson in Courage” for students at a secondary school in St Petersburg’s Kirovsky district. The “Lessons in Courage” scheme has seen veterans from the war in Ukraine deployed to teach lessons in hundreds of educational institutions across Russia. It has been promoted as a socially beneficial means of reintegrating soldiers returning from the front. Milchakov rose to fame in 2011, when the then 20-year-old filmed himself torturing, dismembering and then eating a puppy before posting images online. In a post at the time on VKontakte, a Russian social network, he called for the slaughter of “homeless people, puppies and children” and also boasted about shooting anti-fascists. (…) Milchakov, who once openly described himself as a “Nazi” and called Adolf Hitler his inspiration, fought as a volunteer in the 2014 war in Donbas, where he bragged about mutilating the bodies of murdered Ukrainian soldiers. He was later linked to atrocities in Syria with the Wagner Group in 2017, before returning to Ukraine at the start of the full-scale invasion, where he published an “instruction manual” online for “disposing” of Ukrainian prisoners of war which urged soldiers to torture and kill them before selling information about their bodies to their relatives for money. Rusich in November 2025 publicly announced a “contest” with “material rewards” in cryptocurrency for fighters who sent photographs of themselves executing Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Online activity shows the Base, headed by alleged Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro, sees US and Ukraine as key centers. Amid high-profile arrests in its Spanish cell, the American-born and designated neo-Nazi terrorist group the Base – once a major preoccupation of FBI counter-terrorism efforts – has all but faded from US headlines. But a flurry of online activities shows the group is still active stateside and considers the US an operational nerve center. Headed by Rinaldo Nazzaro, an ex-Pentagon contractor turned alleged Russian intelligence asset, the Base has been busy of late pursuing European expansion: besides its heavily armed members in Spain, its Ukrainian wing is linked to multiple acts of terrorism inside of the country and claimed the high-profile July assassination of an intelligence officer in Kyiv. But the Base’s online footprint also paints a picture of a more careful, yet active, American presence: videos from November show masked men shooting military-style rifles and pistols in what they claim is an Appalachian forest. Another June photo, from the same Appalachian cell, shows five armed men in skull masks, holding rifles and brandishing the Base’s black flag, while a cell from the mid-Atlantic captures three members performing “sieg heil” salutes, with another from the midwest showing two men firing pistols. In the shifting political climate of the second Trump administration, where the FBI has openly rerouted resources away from investigations of far-right extremists, the Base appears free to organize and prepare for their stated objective of fomenting an armed insurgency against the US government. At the same time, its recruitment has continued to funnel through a Russia email address and has not ceased since the 2020 FBI crackdown against it. Nazzaro has also matched this new American law enforcement environment with emboldened rhetoric. “Our long-term strategic goal is to accomplish something similar to what al-Qaida and IS accomplished in Syria,” bragged Nazzaro in an audio recording he released in early December over a Russian-controlled app, reviewed by the Guardian. “Form an organized, armed insurgency to take and hold territory. And establish a white homeland which we control and govern.”

via guardian: Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back

siehe auch: The FBI looked away and now this designated neo-Nazi terror cell headed by an ex-Pentagon contractor is training openly in the US This is deeply troubling. The neo-Nazi terrorist group known as the Base, once a major target for FBI counter-terrorism efforts, is openly escalating its operations and calling for an armed insurgency right here in the United States, as per The Guardian. While the group has been busy expanding its reach into Europe, new online activities show that the US remains its operational nerve center, with cells actively training and preparing for violence. The group is headed by Rinaldo Nazzaro, an ex-Pentagon contractor who is reportedly now a Russian intelligence asset. He recently released an audio recording bragging about the Base’s long-term strategic goal. Nazzaro said, “Our long-term strategic goal is to accomplish something similar to what al-Qaida and IS accomplished in Syria.” He wants to “Form an organized, armed insurgency to take and hold territory. And establish a white homeland which we control and govern.” He concluded that only two traditionally white nations possess all the necessary prerequisites for this goal: Ukraine and the United States. This isn’t just empty talk; the Base has an active footprint here. Videos released in November show masked men shooting military-style rifles and pistols in what they claim is an Appalachian forest. Another June photo from that same Appalachian cell captures five armed men in skull masks holding rifles and brandishing the Base’s black flag.