The O9A and the RDK. Part I
FBI/CIA/HUR neo-nazi pedo satanists?
Part II: NATO and Ukrainian intelligence services
Part III: School shootings in Russia
Part IV: the Trump assassin and the Misanthropic Division
Part V: the Trump assassin and the NS/WP
Part VI: RDK and GLADIO networks
I used to be an English teacher in a private school in Kyiv. Since I know Russian, I was lucky enough to understand what some of my young students were saying. Driven to school by huge BMWs with tinted windows, dressed in a sharp suit, many of these 10, 12 year-olds had a shared obsession - jokes about abusing the homeless. ‘Put a bum in a box and let’s see who finds him’, one crowed during an activity to conceive of a treasure hunt.
Others were more artistic. I remember patrolling the class to see how the students were going. One 11 year old was busy doodling - his notebook was filled with dozens of swasticas.
Satanism, nazism, human IEDs, school shootings, secret services. Not to mention unspeakable acts committed against children. This is the first installment of a new series on the Order of the Nine Angles (O9A) and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK). As it turns out, the most depraved and FBI-infiltrated nazi-satanist ideology (O9A) has some lifelong admirers in the band of self-described esoteric Hitlerists financed and armed by Russian liberal oligarchs and the Ukrainian and western governments.
Today’s article will analyze new, previously untranslated research on the links between the RDK and O9A. The sequel will analyze the recent spate in Russian school shootings in light of this network. A final article will look at the O9A publishers and supporters who remain in Russia, and the strange attitude certain Russian nationalists have towards them.
O9A
First of all, what exactly is the Order of the Nine Angles?
The O9A is a group which emerged in the British neo-nazi scene in the 1980s at the latest. It ascribes to a theory of rightwing accelerationism, according to which the maximization of chaotic violence is necessary in order to hasten the occurrence of a purifying racial war. In fact, race seems to play less of a role in their ideology than the glorification of death and violence.
Interestingly, the founder of the O9A, David Myatt, was never arrested despite the fact that his violent teachings in a Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution were cited by the perpetrator of the deadly 1999 London Bombings. But it was a subsequent figure that would become the most famous illustration of the rather worrying relationship between western governments and the O9A.
In 2020, Ethan Melzer of the 173rd Airborne Brigade was arrested in Italy, on the eve of his deployment to Turkey. He had been plotting with O9A Satanists, and allegedly, Al Qaeda to commit a false flag terror attack in a US base in Turkey. His goal was to pull the US into a new war in the middle east:
“Another 10 year war in the Middle East would definitely leave a mark,” Melzer messaged a fellow satanist. “I would’ve died successfully.”
In the course of the trial, a bombshell emerged. It turned out that Joshua Sutter, a man who had further radicalized the O9A movement throughout the 2000s with his organization Tempel ov Blood and publishing house “Martinet Press”, was an FBI agent. What’s more, he earned $140,000 from the FBI during his 20 years as an informant. This is what the Rolling Stone wrote on it:
In using Sutter as a paid informant while he continues to run his Tempel ov Blood nexion and publishing imprint, the FBI has, in effect, bankrolled one of the most extreme, perverse, and lethal ideologies to emerge from the fever swamp of the internet-driven neo-fascist revival of the early 21st century.
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Lowles maintains that by employing Sutter, the distributor and author of texts that promote not only terrorism but also pedophilia, human sacrifice, and child abuse, the FBI has given its informant way too long a leash, and innocents have paid a price.
“In the 21st century, people don’t have the Turner Diaries anymore, they have Iron Gates and Liber 333,” Lowles says, referring to Tempel ov Blood books published by Sutter. In the opening scene of Iron Gates, a desperate post-apocalyptic mob kills and devours a child, a chilling example of this brand of satanism. Bluebird dwells on the theme of pedophilia and rape. These are not idle words: Children as young as 14 have been groomed by Tempel ov Blood adherents, who have gone on to be convicted for their offenses, including sexually assaulting minors.
Sutter also attended Atomwaffen’s [a transnational terrorist neo-nazi group] 2019 “Nuclear Congress” gathering in a Las Vegas hotel room with several high-ranking members and James Mason, the author of Siege, who urged the creation of a new fascist regime through murder, small “lone wolf” terror attacks, and relentless war against the government.
The article also described the aim of Sutter’s FBI-sponsored activity:
Independent journalist Nate Thayer surfaced communications between Sutter and another satanist wherein Sutter labeled himself “Master of the Tempel,” and Hoy the “Blood-Mistress,” and outlined his intention to radicalize followers through repeated exposure to lurid material and texts to the point of desensitization. It’s the equivalent of creating human IEDS: people who are wired for violence and disconnected enough from morality that they have no compunction about abuse, torture, pedophilia, or any of the other practices outlined in the Tempel ov Blood texts.
In short, US law enforcement has been complicit over several decades in creating a global network of ‘human IEDs’ wired to commit the most depraved violent acts imaginable. To what end?
Kanakhin
According to specialists on rightwing terrorism, O9A organizes itself by ‘nexions’, decentralized groups spread across the world. A 2023 report claimed there to be 50 such nexions spread across the world.
In December 2015, signs appeared of an O9A nexion having formed in Russia. Sutter’s FBI-sponsored Martinet Press released a novel called Kiss of Marena: Temple of the Black Sun.
If you’ve kept up with the Ukraine war, you will have noticed this black sun symbol on many fighters, generally Ukrainian (though not always). I wrote an article on it and other nazi paganist symbolism here. It, of course, is also part of Azov’s official symbol. They claimed to have removed the black sun recently, but many still wear it.
Anyway, back to Kiss of Marena. It was apparently published by a Moscow O9A nexion called Temple of the Black Sun. The Russian investigative journalist Maksim Solopov has a copy of the book, and describes its contents in a 2024 article:
The preface to the edition clarifies that the plot of the literary work is "firmly rooted in the reality surrounding this group."
The events in the book revolve around the story of a Moscow neo-Nazi pagan and his mystical experiences. The protagonist’s acquaintance—a staunch National Socialist, martial artist, and painter—introduces the young man to a closed, exclusive knife-fighting club. There, a man referred to as the "Instructor" teaches the recruits not only combat skills but also how to transition from training to actual killings.
Together with his wife, the group's leader draws selected disciples into occult rituals. By the end of the story, the young neo-Nazi evolves from a street-level subculture figure into a cold-blooded, inconspicuous serial killer—a servant of Marena, the goddess of death. The text is dated 2013 (or more precisely, the 124th year since the birth of Adolf Hitler).
The typical life of post-soviet neo-nazis. Knife gyms and mystical experiences. Anyway, the interesting thing about Kiss of Marena is who referenced it. One of the few mentions of the book in the post-soviet world was made by Kirill Kanakhin - one of the leaders of the Ukrainian-sponsored Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK). In the video below, he poses (right) alongside Alexei Levkin (more on him later) in May 2023 during their short-lived incursion into Russia’s Belgorod region:
The first of these references is from April 2021, when Kanakhin reposted a video of himself reading his poem ‘The Crusade of the Children’. According to him, he wrote it in 2012, and it gained popularity through Levkin’s Wotanjugend community (more on which also later). The video, which you can watch below, begins by referencing the O9A nexion Tempel of the Black Sun:
This is a translation of the poem:
Against the vile adult world,
Against your beloved whores,
Against your treasured idols
Children will take up knives,
Children will take up pistols,
Children will shatter illusions,
Boosting newspaper circulations
And you'll spew bile,
Lounging on kitchen sofas:
"Who taught them to kill?",
"How can they hate so deeply?"
But remember how often
You refused to hear their cries—
Now they'll make you listen
By slashing your bloated guts
Your TV won't save you,
Children refuse this life any longer,
This will be a Crystal Night
For every drowned kitten,
For every ruined dream-castle,
For every princess you poisoned,
For your betrayal of Beauty,
For auctioning sacred heavens!
Is it not interesting that Kanakhin’s poem is about murders committed by children? Manipulating mentally unstable children into acts of violence against themselves and others is the calling card of the O9A-affiliated 764 network. And as we will see in a future installment, there has certainly been plenty of violence committed by neo-nazi, excessively online children in Russia of late.
Back to Kanakhin’s relationship to O9A. Kanakhin writes regarding the video that the term ‘Tempel of the Black Sun’
refers to a Moscow-based group operating within the Order of Nine Angles (O9A)—a circle that formed my main social circle for several years.
According to the aforementioned journalist Solopov, the video above was first published in 2013. It was then dedicated to the National Socialist Organization - North, whose members were arrested for dozens of murders. Solopov also notes that the video was filmed on the Kola Peninsula, the arctic region which figures prominently in Kiss of Marena.
Kanakhin seems to have been intimately involved with the book. Solopov notes that a photo of a stone featured in Kanakhin's telegram resembles the image of a 'shrine' on the Kola Peninsula used in the cover design of the American edition of 'Kiss of Marena'.
Kanakhin and his friends probably engaged in worse things than Hitlerian poetry reading on the Kola peninsula. In April 2024, the Moscow regional court sentenced four satanists for two ritual murders committed in 2016 in these arctic wastes. The victims were part of the same occult subculture. Their flesh was subsequently cooked and eaten.
The murderers were only found in 2021, and in regards to an entirely different matter - drug dealing. They were arrested for the sale of heroin and mephedrone. The self-proclaimed followers of O9A then revealed what they’d gotten up to in Kola.
Kanakhin also claimed to have engaged in O9A rituals in Kola. However, his April 2021 post on the matter also seemed to distance himself from O9A, albeit in a highly obscure manner:
I participated in [O9A] rituals multiple times but never underwent formal initiation into their tradition.
Satanism—even an unorthodox variety like that of the O9A, which essentially amounts to dark paganism blended with Hitlerism, Jungianism, Islamo-fascism, Hermeticism, and orgies—still remains trapped within the framework of Abrahamism.
I couldn’t bring myself to accept appeals to the Devil, even as a convention or a game.
By that point, I was already drawn to Tantrism and Shaivism.
Sure. In any case, it’s hardly coincidental that one of the few people publicly linked with the Russian nexion of the O9A serves in one of the Ukrainian government’s most publicized military units.
Levkin and Kapustin
Alexei Levkin and Denis Kapustin are the most well-known representatives of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK). The RDK was created in August 2022 on the territory of Ukraine, though it claims to not be a part of the Ukrainian army. Naturally, it receives western weapons. They are also advertised by the media of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the exiled anti-Putin ‘liberal oligarch’.
Unsurprisingly, they claim as their historical heroes the Russian anti-communists who fought alongside Hitler in the ‘Russian Volunteer Army’. Their official manifesto, ‘Homo Ethnicus’, argued for a ‘third way’ beyond liberalism and communism - ‘an Ethnic Worldview’ of unity through ‘blood and nation’.
Ironically, though Kapustin moved to Germany in his youth on a visa made available due to his Jewish roots, his Schengen visa was revoked in 2019 due to his activity in neo-nazi organizations. Even western publications are unanimous in admitting that the fighters of the RDK are ‘some of the most dangerous neo-nazis in the world’, whose only opposition to Putin’s Russia is because they ‘consider Russia dirty because of its multi-ethnic make-up.’
Both are originally Russian, like Kanakhin, but have felt at home in Ukraine for the past few years. Both are also linked to the O9A.
Alexey Levkin came to Ukraine in 2014 and fought alongside Azov in the ‘Anti-Terrorist Operation’ in Ukraine’s east. He also fought in the Azov brigade from 2022 onwards, until the emergence of the RDK.
He also founded the online community WotanJugend back in 2008, when he was still living in Russia. Bellingcat wrote a long article about WotanJugend’s ‘esoteric Hitlerism’, which can be read here. The group propagandizes the ideas and actions of ‘heroes’ such as the Christchurch Shooter, Timothy McVeigh, and Anders Breivik. It has also inspired and encouraged murders of the homeless and migrants in Russia.
Levkin has also been the lead singer of M8l8th since 2001, a national socialist black metal group which often collaborates with Kanakhin. Note that the poster above advertises ‘Solar Cross Poetry’ - this is Kanakhin’s pseudonym. It describes itself as ‘Poetry Against the Contemporary World’. M8l8th, which features the 88 sign meaning ‘Heil Hitler’ amidst the word ‘Molot’, or hammer, is also known as ‘Hitler’s Hammer’. If you like, you can have a look at an English page with their lyrics here. Levkin seems to find enough spare time outside of his military service to record well-produced music videos like this:
But they don’t limit themselves to black metal. Levkin put out a more conventional song with Kanakhin to celebrate the Belgorod raid:
All the top comments are making 88 jokes:
M8l8th’s lyrics are an endless torrent of fantasties about Buchenwald, ‘the dirty blood of kikes’, and claims that ‘millions look upon with swastica with hope’. In the following clip from a M8l8th concert, Levkin sings alongside bass player Yurii 'Doom' Pavlyshyn. Pavlyshyn is another fighter in Azov's 3rd Assault Brigade.
Levkin also seems to be quite enamored with murder for murder’s sake, in an aestheticism reminiscent of O9A ideology:
“To sing about war, one has to fight,” Levkin told neo-Nazi Golden Dawn’s magazine. “To sing about murder, one has to kill.”
Furthermore, M8l8lth is concerned with educating the youth. Levkin posted this photo to his telegram of Ukrainian schoolchildren. His caption was ‘today the school is ours, tomorrow the galaxy!’
The RDK was even graced by a long 2025 interview with Levkin published by Ukraine’s ‘Army Inform’, an official website representing the military. About half of the discussion concerns M8l8th and recollections about the rightwing subculture of Ukraine. It finishes by asking Levkin about his ‘concerts, which are particularly energetic’. Levkin gladly obliges, and talks at length about his project Asgardsrei and his recent concert Yule Night.
Levkin’s label ‘Militant Zone’ works closely with Kanakhin in the retailing of occult literature, merchandise and music. Both have been closely integrated into Ukraine’s broader Azov movement for years. Levkin is full of praise for Azov in interviews:
“there’s already a movement that deserves support…I’m talking about [Azov’s] National Corps and the National Militia as the former’s power wing.”
Kapustin, leader of the RDK, visited a training camp run by the British neo-nazis National Action in 2014. Members of this organization were subsequently arrested by British law enforcement for terrorist plots. Their ties to O9A figured in the cases. One of them, Ryan Fleming, was convicted among other things, of sexual abuse of a mentally disabled young boy. According to Hope not Hate, Fleming was also the author of various stories for Martinet Press involving sexual violence against children.
The first lady of the fourth reich
One of my followers on twitter was even kind enough to point to a case where Joshua Sutter himself visited an Azov event in Ukraine.
Olena Semenyaka has been described as the “first lady of Ukrainian nationalism”. This leading intellectual figure of the Azov movement is also fond of the O9A. The FBI informant Sutter attended Semenyaka’s 2018 “Pact of Steel” conference in Kyiv. Sutter brought several Atomwaffen members along with him.
What better guests to invite to the vanguard of Western Civilization, Democracy and European Values?
Deep operations
It should be emphasized that the RDK was a pet project of Kyryllo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR). According to the NYT, Budanov’s spy service was lovingly curated and assisted by western intelligence services since 2014. Their shared passion, of course, were operations on Russian soil.
Kapustin, Kanakhin, and Levkin are certainly the ideal people to recruit if you are interested in activating terrorist networks in Russia. Levkin constantly boasts of how many RDK followers there are in Russia, as well as posting photos of RDK graffiti deep in Russia. Here is what specialist on O9A-RDK links Oleg Solopov had to say on the matter in June 2023: a
Some pretend that the RDK is merely a media project of Ukrainian intelligence. Yes, as a battlefield unit, they are too small. However, in the 2010s, it was precisely WotanJugend and Kapustin's White Rex project that became a focal point for the most radical segment of the far-right.
A quick analysis of the White Rex community on VK, which was abandoned in 2020: out of 44,500 subscribers, 5,500 listed Moscow as their place of residence, 644 – Rostov-on-Don, 88 – Belgorod, 60 – Bryansk, and 55 – Kursk. Among them, many were drawn in by the brutal aesthetics, and some have taken a conformist stance. But even if just 1% have maintained their "firm beliefs," that still amounts to a network of 500 potential terrorism accomplices with the support of a neighboring state’s intelligence services.
The following text is also from Solopov:
RDK symbolism spotted in the Moscow region near Ukhtomskaya station. The photo comes from the banned Wotan Jugend community, which is linked to RDK and has glorified and inspired serial killers of homeless people and migrants. Eyewitnesses have confirmed the graffiti’s location. Next, a photo of WJ supporters at a legal march in Moscow in May 2014, carrying a slogan in support of Maidan.
If all that wasn’t enough, the RDK is also tight with Zelensky’s ruling clique. The chief ideologue of the RDK is the son of the Servant of the People’s director. A good soviet family. Here’s what he had to say about Zelensky:
"Zelensky presented himself in such a way that I was completely taken aback. His rhetoric, and especially the fact that Israel is indeed maintaining a neutrality favorable to Russia, leads me to think that Volodymyr Oleksandrovych is, after all, 'our’ Kike (in Churchill's sense), and not just ZOG. And it's hard to call him an oligarch. I know him personally, just so you know.”
Obviously, the RDK’s military adventures into Russian territory didn’t go too well. But Joshua Sutter and the like weren’t specialized in combined arms operations. Instead, one could expect those involved in the O9A to be adept at covert operations and stochastic violence.
Not the first, not the last
Today’s article has analyzed the many links between western rightwing acceleration satanist groups and rightwing militarized groups sponsored by the Ukrainian government. My next article will analyze school shootings and other acts of seemingly ‘random’ violence in Russia in this light. But for now, a taste - the case of Semen Chulkov.
In March 18, 2024, Russian police knocked on his apartment door in a town near Moscow - he was wanted for the repeated rape of a 14 year old girl, as well as for a series of violent attacks on randomly selected victims.
The shaven, tattooed man opened the door in his underwear, holding a machete. He offered no resistance and has been open about his views. He proudly confirmed to police what he wrote online about his ideology:
NUCLEAR WAR, GENOCIDE, AND RAPED NUNS, SADISM, PERVERSIONS
He also named his greatest inspirations - O9A and Misanthropic Division, an Azovite group that emerged in 2014 and heavily advertises towards foreigners online. Here’s what he had to say about them:
Excellent examples of militant Satanic groups," … "true demons, Satanists, and black magicians must create their associations, drawing on their experience.
Become a paid subscriber to gain access to part II of this series, which will investigate Russia’s many ‘lone wolf’ attacks, often committed by children. A Crusade of the Children, in Kanakhin’s words. The links are not only poetic.
The incompetence of our Canadian law enforcement people to deal with this unspeakable scum is disgusting to me beyond words. They should be ashamed of themselves, to have so much of this information so available yet "no charges have been laid." Yet our judges can persecute people like Dr William Makis and the Truckers Freedom defendants for non existent non-crimes. I'm ashamed of my country when I hear stuff like this
Can't help but notice the good ol' Stars and Bars hanging above that Misanthropic Division Banner. A fine encapsulation of the lunacy that has taken hold of the American center left establishment.
At the end of World War II, Patton supposedly wanted to re-arm the Nazis and send them against the Soviets. Fate indeed has a rather twisted and decidedly ironic sense of humor.