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BBC News
4 days ago
- BBC News
Northumberland boy, 15, denies terrorist attack plan
A 15-year-old boy accused of being part of a banned neo-Nazi group has denied planning a terrorist youth, from Northumberland, is charged with engaging in conduct in preparation for committing acts of terrorism on or before 20 February and one count of membership of proscribed organisation The is alleged the defendant planned to target a phone mast and that he had searched the internet for local via video-link at the Old Bailey for a plea hearing, he pleaded not guilty to the charges. A trial has been set for next year. The Base, described as a right-wing white supremacist group, was proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the Home Office in July 2021. The court was told the teenager, who cannot be named because of his age, began to discuss planning a terrorist attack with an unidentified individual earlier this is accused of acquiring equipment and weapons including a crossbow and of downloading extremist teenager, who was arrested on 20 February, faces a four to six-week trial beginning on 13 January next year at Leeds Crown Justice Cheema-Grubb said a further preparatory hearing would take place on 5 boy was remanded back into custody. Follow BBC North East on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
The Guardian
5 days ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
Ukraine wing of US-founded terrorist group says it was involved in killing of intelligence officer in Kyiv
The Ukrainian wing of an internationally proscribed far-right terrorist organization with suspected links to Russia is claiming involvement in the brazen assassination of an intelligence officer in Kyiv. Late last week, a masked assailant shot and killed Col Ivan Voronych of the Ukraine security service (SBU) as he walked through a Kyiv parking lot in broad daylight. Shocking footage of the assassination circulated in Ukrainian media and caused a stir among residents in the capital. For months, the Base, born in the US and with a web of cells all over the world, has been offering money to supporters or willing participants for targeted assassinations and attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine, coinciding with allegations that its American founder, Rinaldo Nazzaro, was a Kremlin spy. Ukrainian authorities have also been warning in recent weeks of similar Russian intelligence operations covertly paying unknowing citizens to carry out sabotage inside their country. 'The shooting of the SBU colonel is not the end, but only the beginning,' said a statement posted on a Telegram channel that appears to be linked to the the Base's supposed Ukrainian cell. 'We will continue our struggle until justice prevails.' The same post, translated from Ukrainian, added that the group's members were 'proud of our associates' who carried out the killing and said they didn't care if naysayers thought of them as 'terrorists and extremists'. In another message to subscribers, the account also threatens other Ukrainian public figures and promises: 'The hunt continues!' Sources in the counter-terrorism field reviewed the posts and said they appeared credible and represented an escalation from the Base, which is now either endorsing treasonous murders inside of Ukraine, actively commissioning them, or both. On Sunday, the SBU announced it had killed the two suspects they say were instructed and supplied with a pistol to assassinate Voronych on behalf of 'Russian special services' handlers. Other media reports in Ukraine reported the assassins were foreign nationals linked to criminal groups and were remotely supported by Russian intelligence. Although originally a stateside extremist group, the Base had never publicly allied itself to the geopolitical goals of the Russian government of President Vladimir Putin, until very recently. In April, the Base started waging what it described as an insurgency to establish an all-white ethnostate in the western Ukrainian oblast of Zakarpattia. So far, videos of arson attacks against what appear to be police and military vehicles, electric boxes and other targets have been uploaded to its accounts on Telegram, along with dozens of other geolocated videos inside Ukraine. Nazzaro, who is a former Pentagon contractor with the US special forces, declined to comment on the Ukraine cell of the Base and the killing when reached on his Telegram account. 'I have no personal involvement in this incident and I don't know who is responsible,' he added. Previously, he had publicly endorsed the group's Ukraine operations on Telegram and said it was being overseen by members inside the country that he did not control. Sign up to Headlines US Get the most important US headlines and highlights emailed direct to you every morning after newsletter promotion Multiple requests for comment sent to a chatbot and an active email address associated with the Ukrainian cell went unanswered. 'The Base has been highly active in Ukraine since March and has conducted at least 10 arson attacks targeting infrastructure and buildings throughout the country,' said Steven Rai, an analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) who has been closely monitoring the Base's online activities. 'They have repeatedly threatened a variety of terrorist actions, including acts of sabotage and the assassination of Ukrainian government officials.' Rai continued: 'While we cannot confirm whether the Base was truly responsible for this recent assassination of an SBU official, this action is very much in line with what they have been threatening to do for months and shows the severity of the threat they pose.' In 2018, the Base became the subject of a relentless FBI counter-terrorism investigation that led to dozens of arrests and governments around the world designating it as a terrorist organization. Recently, the Base has doubled down on its recruitment efforts in Europe, and, with several new national cells across the continent – it has regrown its ranks inside the US and is clearly exporting its brand abroad – just as the Trump administration continues pulling FBI resources away from domestic terrorism investigations. Nazzaro, who lives the life of a semi-defected American in St Petersburg with his Russian wife and family, has for years denied any associations with Russian intelligence, going so far as to tell a Kremlin-controlled television channel that he had 'never had any contact with any Russian security services'. But the digital forensics of the group and Nazzaro's public history say otherwise: the Base's online footprints rely heavily on Russian digital infrastructure, with its recruitment email using a address – the email service owned by a Putin ally. Nazzaro has never been charged publicly in the US, but was the subject of an FBI investigation and was once called a justice department 'matter' by a US government official.
Novaya Gazeta Europe
6 days ago
- Politics
- Novaya Gazeta Europe
Ukraine wing of Russia-linked neo-Nazi group claims involvement in killing of security service colonel — Novaya Gazeta Europe
The Ukrainian wing of far-right terrorist organisation The Base, which is suspected of having ties to Russia, has claimed involvement in the recent killing of a top-ranking intelligence colonel in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, The Guardian reported on Wednesday. Last Thursday, Colonel Ivan Voronych was fatally shot five times in Kyiv by an unidentified gunman who fled the scene of the killing in an SUV. On Sunday, Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) chief Vasyl Malyuk announced that two Russian FSB agents suspected of assassinating Voronych had been killed in a police raid on their place of residence in Kyiv. The Base, founded in 2018 by Rinaldo Nazzaro, a former Pentagon contractor suspected of engaging in espionage at the behest of the Kremlin, is a neo-Nazi terrorist group previously implicated in 'an assassination plot, mass shootings, and other actions in Europe', according to The Guardian. For months, the newspaper reports, The Base has been offering to pay members or voluntary collaborators to conduct 'targeted assassinations' or attacks on Ukraine's 'critical infrastructure', in a similar fashion to the sabotage operations carried out in Europe by Russia's intelligence services. In two Telegram posts published last week, White Phoenix, the alleged Ukraine-based arm of The Base, claimed that its 'activists' had carried out a 'carefully planned' attack on Voronych as a 'warning to the regime' of Volodymyr Zelensky. 'The execution of the SBU colonel is not the end, but only the beginning,' one post by the White Phoenix read, adding that it was 'proud of [its] comrades' and calling on 'all honest Ukrainians' to join them. Independent media outlet Agentstvo wrote that the Base's founder Nazzaro lives in St. Petersburg and has been married to a Russian woman since 2012. In April, The Guardian reported that former members of The Base suspected Nazzaro of having ties to Russian special services, although he has repeatedly denied the allegation, including at one occasion on Russian state TV. According to The New York Times, Voronych was a senior officer in the Fifth Directorate, an elite SBU unit responsible for killing a top Russian separatist commander named Arsen Pavlov, also known as Motorola, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region in 2016.
The Guardian
6 days ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
Ukraine wing of US-founded terrorist group says it was involved in killing of intelligence officer in Kyiv
The Ukrainian wing of an internationally proscribed far-right terrorist organization with suspected links to Russia is claiming involvement in the brazen assassination of an intelligence officer in Kyiv. Late last week, a masked assailant shot and killed Col Ivan Voronych of the Ukraine security service (SBU) as he walked through a Kyiv parking lot in broad daylight. Shocking footage of the assassination circulated in Ukrainian media and caused a stir among residents in the capital. For months, the Base, born in the US and with a web of cells all over the world, has been offering money to supporters or willing participants for targeted assassinations and attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine, coinciding with allegations that its American founder, Rinaldo Nazzaro, was a Kremlin spy. Ukrainian authorities have also been warning in recent weeks of similar Russian intelligence operations covertly paying unknowing citizens to carry out sabotage inside their country. 'The shooting of the SBU colonel is not the end, but only the beginning,' said a statement posted on a Telegram channel that appears to be linked to the the Base's supposed Ukrainian cell. 'We will continue our struggle until justice prevails.' The same post, translated from Ukrainian, added that the group's members were 'proud of our associates' who carried out the killing and said they didn't care if naysayers thought of them as 'terrorists and extremists'. In another message to subscribers, the account also threatens other Ukrainian public figures and promises: 'The hunt continues!' Sources in the counter-terrorism field reviewed the posts and said they appeared credible and represented an escalation from the Base, which is now either endorsing treasonous murders inside of Ukraine, actively commissioning them, or both. On Sunday, the SBU announced it had killed the two suspects they say were instructed and supplied with a pistol to assassinate Voronych on behalf of 'Russian special services' handlers. Other media reports in Ukraine reported the assassins were foreign nationals linked to criminal groups and were remotely supported by Russian intelligence. Although originally a stateside extremist group, the Base had never publicly allied itself to the geopolitical goals of the Russian government of President Vladimir Putin, until very recently. In April, the Base started waging what it described as an insurgency to establish an all-white ethnostate in the western Ukrainian oblast of Zakarpattia. So far, videos of arson attacks against what appear to be police and military vehicles, electric boxes and other targets have been uploaded to its accounts on Telegram, along with dozens of other geolocated videos inside Ukraine. Nazzaro, who is a former Pentagon contractor with the US special forces, declined to comment on the Ukraine cell of the Base and the killing when reached on his Telegram account. 'I have no personal involvement in this incident and I don't know who is responsible,' he added. Previously, he had publicly endorsed the group's Ukraine operations on Telegram and said it was being overseen by members inside the country that he did not control. Sign up to Headlines US Get the most important US headlines and highlights emailed direct to you every morning after newsletter promotion Multiple requests for comment sent to a chatbot and an active email address associated with the Ukrainian cell went unanswered. 'The Base has been highly active in Ukraine since March and has conducted at least 10 arson attacks targeting infrastructure and buildings throughout the country,' said Steven Rai, an analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) who has been closely monitoring the Base's online activities. 'They have repeatedly threatened a variety of terrorist actions, including acts of sabotage and the assassination of Ukrainian government officials.' Rai continued: 'While we cannot confirm whether the Base was truly responsible for this recent assassination of an SBU official, this action is very much in line with what they have been threatening to do for months and shows the severity of the threat they pose.' In 2018, the Base became the subject of a relentless FBI counter-terrorism investigation that led to dozens of arrests and governments around the world designating it as a terrorist organization. Recently, the Base has doubled down on its recruitment efforts in Europe, and, with several new national cells across the continent – it has regrown its ranks inside the US and is clearly exporting its brand abroad – just as the Trump administration continues pulling FBI resources away from domestic terrorism investigations. Nazzaro, who lives the life of a semi-defected American in St Petersburg with his Russian wife and family, has for years denied any associations with Russian intelligence, going so far as to tell a Kremlin-controlled television channel that he had 'never had any contact with any Russian security services'. But the digital forensics of the group and Nazzaro's public history say otherwise: the Base's online footprints rely heavily on Russian digital infrastructure, with its recruitment email using a address – the email service owned by a Putin ally. Nazzaro has never been charged publicly in the US, but was the subject of an FBI investigation and was once called a justice department 'matter' by a US government official.
Daily Mail
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Lara Worthington shows off her trim figure as she poses for impromptu photoshoot on a New York City street
Lara Worthington sent temperatures soaring on Thursday as she flaunted her trim physique in the midst of a New York City heatwave. The Aussie model, 37, stepped out in a pair of low-rise grey trousers, black pointed toe leather boots and a bodysuit. Lara bared her tanned back as she stopped to take a selfie in a shopfront window on the street. She seemed unbothered by the scorching sun as she struck a series of poses for the camera. Lara oozed style as she held her yellow iPhone up to snap the shot while carrying a leather handbag. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. The glamorous mother sported her trademark blonde bob and a glowing natural tan. She stopped to turn side-on and held her left arm over the bodysuit in another artful snap that highlighted her tiny waist. The outing comes after Lara announced she is gearing up to relaunch her cult beauty brand The Base in the coming months. Millennials will remember the brand consisted of a single tinted moisturiser called The LB Cream. But by 2018, its cult following had tapered off and amid closure rumours, Lara relaunched the brand as a not-for-profit called Share The Base. Then it disappeared and was taken off shelves. In April, Lara sent fans into a frenzy as she confirmed its return to the market. 'It's gonna be shiny and sexy, not the formulation lol the packing,' she penned in an announcement on her Substack. Lara and her husband Sam Worthington relocated to New York City in 2022, leaving behind sunny Los Angeles and their native Sydney for a change in pace The Base and her newly fledge beauty brand Ommage Beauty will be available in the next few months. Lara confirmed that the original formula will remain the same, but that she has expanded from five to 12 shades for all skin tones. Perhaps drawing inspiration from her time as the face of New Zealand-born eco skincare brand Emma Lewisham, Lara also noted her rebirthed brand will be refillable, vegan, fragrance free, and Australian made. 'This product is my favourite white t-shirt of my makeup draw,' Lara said. 'Super blendable, you can control the coverage with minimal effort to apply. The coverage sits in between a foundation and a tinted moisturiser. It's the perfect amount of perfectnessssss for a speedy morning routine. 'Yes it has built in SPF!!! Ummmmmm what else?!?! It's Vegan! It's Cruelty free! It's Fragrance free! 'It sells out quickly but I will try and keep our stock levels more constant then before… 'It's made in God's country… Australia! My mum loves it.' Lara and her husband Sam Worthington relocated to New York City in 2022, leaving behind sunny Los Angeles and their native Sydney for a change in pace. Lara and Sam began dating in 2013 and married in secret a year later. They share three sons - Rocket, Racer and River.
