Maniac Killers Cult, pt. I
Palestine Action, nazi satanist serial murderers, and NATO-trained Ukrainian paramilitaries.
On July 11, 2024, the United Kingdom added ‘Palestine Action’ to its list of proscribed terrorist groups. But Palestine Action wasn’t the only group in the crosshairs of London that day - it also added the eastern European rightwing groups ‘Maniacs Murder Cult’ and the ‘Russian Imperial Movement’.
I certainly won’t argue about labelling the MKU a terrorist group.
Their entire ‘ideology’ is based around manipulating teenagers into committing murders, the more the better. In Ukraine, this manifests itself through killing the homeless and beating elderly women. But abroad…
I wrote last month about the clear influence of MKU content on several recent mass shooting incidents in the USA. I also covered them in an older article of mine on the recent spate of school shootings in Russia. Many respectable western publications have analyzed the devious activities of the MKU.
But the British proscription of MKU as a terrorist group obviously had other motives.
UK Minister of State, Lord Hanson of Flint, gave a speech to the house of Lords on July 11 justifying the move. It began with a lengthy description of the evils of the MKU, followed by an even lengthier condemnation of Palestine Action. Obviously, the aim here was to tar Palestine Action by association with the nazi satanist MKU.
The MKU, whose followers have committed a number of murders, is apparently just as bad as Palestine Action, which:
orchestrated and enacted a campaign of direct criminal action against businesses and institutions, including key national infrastructure and defence firms that provide services and supplies to support our efforts in Ukraine, NATO, our Five Eyes allies and the UK defence enterprise.
How dreadful!
After examining Palestine Action, Lord Hanson finishes by describing the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM). This section also contains his speech’s only other references to Ukraine, insofar as the RIM supposedly participates in the war in Ukraine on Russia’s side.
There’s one thing quite obviously being left out of the speech — that the MKU originated in Ukraine. Nowhere in Hanson’s description of the MKU does this figure. The official UK government statement on the matter also neglects to mention this fact.
Other western publications on the MKU are similarly coy. Unicornriot, an anarchist antifascist website, describes the MKU merely as a group that ‘originated in Ukraine and Russia’. An ABC article from May 2025 on the MKU’s link to the Antioch high school shooting writes that the MKU is a ‘Russian and Ukrainian-based extremist group’.
But in fact, the MKU is not only a Ukrainian phenomenon, but one deeply embedded in Ukraine’s nationalist movement — the same groups that countries like the UK have funded for years.
Today I’ll examine the MKU in some more detail. I’ll start off by looking at the influences behind it — the glorification of serial murder pushed by the UK-born Order of the Nine Angles, as well as general tendencies in the Russo-Ukrainian neo-nazi movement.
Then we’ll take a look at the life of MKU founder Yegor Krasnov, in his own words. I’ll explain why I believe that his references to ‘veteran paramilitary groups’ he trained alongside in his native Ukraine probably refers to the (western-trained) Azov movement. Finally, we’ll talk about the reasons why some even in the Ukrainian nationalist community accuse Krasnov of cooperating with Ukrainian law enforcement.
Influences
Last week, I wrote about the nazi satanist Order of the Nine Angles, the British nazi satanic group with so many thought-provoking links with western intelligence services.
Tomorrow, we’ll see how the MKU explicitly aligns itself with the O9A and its modern iterations, but for now, a look at what the ‘classic’ O9A itself had to say about murdering the homeless — the MKU’s favorite activity:
In Fenrir [the main journal of the O9A - EIU], Issue I, 121 Year of Fayen (2010), readers find a short story written by a member of Secuntra Nexion (Italy) called “Eighteen” (perhaps another classic neo-Nazi dog whistle referencing Adolf Hitler). In “Eighteen,” a character named Augustus burns three people alive in a homeless encampment to cull the “dross of society.” The killings perpetrated by Augustus magickally change “something inside him” and cause a tetrahedral crystal in his possession to pulsate and vibrate with acausal energy. The same issue of Fenrir encourages ONA adherents to “Propose to others to engage themselves in suicidal actions,” to kill others randomly with bomb attacks, and, in a prescriptive example of “Sinister Cloaking,” to kill a “Homo Hubri” with a “very mundane and widely distributed cooking knife” in order to make forensic analysis and attribution to ONA by authorities ever so slightly more difficult. This issue of Fenrir closes with an interview of an individual called “Prozak” from the American Nihilist Underground Society in which Prozak affirms ONA’s racialist cosmology and sinister ethos:
You’ll want to keep your psyche sharp by being willing to slaughter people on regular basis if they represent an insult to all you love. Retards, deformed people, parasites, pedophiles, idiots, perverts, criminals, passive aggressives and other mental defects make life seem ugly and depress us all.
Source here.
O9A influence on the Russian neo-nazi scene can be traced back to 2013, when a Russian neo-nazi group ‘Temple of the Black Sun’ published a novella clearly influenced by O9A ideology - ‘Kiss of Marena’. The book, which I analyzed here, is about a young neo-nazi who has a series of mystical experiences and sets up a cult dedicated to serial murder by knife. The book is also filled with transcendent vibrations, crystals, and acausal energy, the usual hippie shit. But what is relevant is the continuity with the Fenrir passage from 2010 I reproduced above.
The FBI-sponsored O9A outfit Martinet Press ended up translating the book in 2015. They claimed that the Russian group was not originally inspired by the O9A but instead came ‘organically’ to the same ideas, which is rather hard to believe.
In fact, Kirill Kanakhin, a Russian failed actor-cum-neo-nazi who now fights on Ukraine’s side, wrote on telegram that he had been around the ‘O9A for years’, and specifically in the Temple of the Black Sun. He also wrote that he had been close friends with the artist who made the cover for the Temple of the Black Sun’s 2013 novella. In short, the timeline seems to indicate that Temple of the Black Sun was always into the O9A. But that is quite clear from reading their 2013 novel itself.
Anyway, it is at least true that Russian neo-nazis didn’t need much encouragement in killing the homeless. Over the course of the late 2000s and 2010s, neo-nazi groups that once focused on killing migrants turned to killing the homeless, a process I described in detail here.
The reasons behind the shift are several. On the one hand, the Russian government cracked down on neo-nazi groups by the late 2000s. Killing a migrant could get you in serious trouble with the government, and organized diasporic communities are also known to get revenge for their own. The homeless, in contrast, are wont to disappear without being noticed. This is true for Russia as much as any other country. Those with a taste for blood hence may have whetted it through the easiest target available.
The NS/WP network is the best example. In 2018, an NS/WP cell called ‘Sparrows Crew’ launched a homeless murder competition. The one who killed the most would supposedly receive a white iphone. As we’ll see, the MKU describes Sparrows Crew as one of its ideological inspirations. Its leader, Roman Zheleznov, fled to Ukraine to join Azov in 2014.
The NS/WP network, unlike the MKU, is relatively uncontroversial among Russo-Ukrainian neo-nazis — it is widely respected. The NS/WP, which originated in the early 2000s as an internet forum, is connected with many of the greatest ‘glories’ of the nazi skinhead movement.
The anti-homeless crusade is hence not simply something thought up by the MKU. It has ties to the deeper ideological currents of the post-soviet neo-nazi movements. Drunks and homeless are described as ‘biomatter’, ‘subhumans’. In neo-nazi writings, they are symbolic of the broader corruption of post-soviet society, which must be ruthlessly ‘cleansed’ through murder. There are quite strong hints of the classic post-soviet middle class hatred of ‘the lumpenprol masses’.
In short, the nazi skins of Russia always had very accentuated misanthropic characteristics. Since most of society wasn’t enthusiastic about their Hitlerian mission, all of society needed to be ‘cleansed’. And anyway, a large number of the recruits to the nazi skin movement were youth looking for a maximally extreme way to express their anger. The MKU was hardly an aberration.
Krasnov
We’ll now move onto the figure who created the MKU - Yegor Krasnov.
This charming young man comes from the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, formerly known as Dnepropetrovsk. Dnipro, one of Ukraine’s largest industrial centers, is a city with a criminal reputation. It is also the center of Ukraine’s scam call centres, themselves deeply embedded with law enforcement and rightwing paramilitary groups, as I wrote in my series on them.
Dnipro is also known for the hammer murders of the early 2000s, immortalized by the infamous snuff video ‘three guys, one hammer’. The killers, accused of murdering 21 people on camera, became known as the ‘Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs’.
Krasnov, naturally is quite inspired by them. You could tell that from the name of his group, which uses the word ‘Maniacs’. In the MKU’s main publication, the 2023 ‘Haters Handbook’, Krasnov boasts that his cell also used hammers to kill their victims, and recommends the use of this weapon.
Let’s get into the character of Krasnov himself. According to the Haters Handbook, Krasnov was born in 2001. In said book (which I don’t recommend googling, since it is apparently a terrorist offense in many western countries to own it), Krasnov dedicates much time to describing the cosmic misanthropy which consumed him from a young age, and his subsequent interest in neo-nazism:
Raised by suffering that turned into hatred and a thirst to endlessly kill people, I continued my activities and developed mentally and physically. As I grew older, my hatred and desire to kill grew. While still a child, I decided that as soon as I became strong enough, I would kill a person and I would kill people all my life, I would kill as many as possible and then commit suicide.
I get acquainted with cruel films about maniacs and serial killers, about skinheads and national socialism. A little later with adult literature about politics and history. I am fascinated by famous maniacs and the methods of their brutal crimes against people. I delved into the subculture of NS -skinheads, admired the activities of NS/WP, BTO, Sparrows Crew.
This whole world is against me. It has been occupied by a vile filth that needs racial cleansing. All people must die.
The mention of the NS/WP and Sparrows Crew is notable. The BTO is the abbreviation for the ‘Militant Terrorist Organization’, a group active in the early 2000s.
But Krasnov wasn’t just inspired by Russian neo-nazi groups. He also boasts of how he was a member of Ukrainian nationalist groups that had taken part in the war in the Donbass. But which group?
