Russian law enforcement and counter terrorism officials issued an international arrest warrant Wednesday for a Ukrainian nationalist leader who allegedly implored a wanted Chechen warlord to mount attacks against Russia.
The Investigative Committee said in a statement that “Dmitry Yarosh, who heads the far right-wing Right Sector group, should be turned over to Russia for prosecution for the call that they said threatened its citizens”, according to the Moscow Times.
Officials charged Yarosh in “absentia” earlier this week with “public endorsement of terrorist and extremist activities” for a message he purportedly wrote last weekend on his group’s page on the Vkontakte social network.
The post urged Chechen warlord Doku Umarovto help fight against “Russian occupation of Ukraine,” saying that Ukrainians and natives of Russia’s North Caucasus shared “spilled blood.”
Umarov, the self-proclaimed head of a secessionist Islamic radical group in the North Caucasus, has claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks in Russia and, most recently, threatened to attack the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Dmitry Yarosh, the head of the so called Right Sector group, previously declared by the US to be responsible for all the violence in the center of Kiev, announced the creation of the so called Revolutionary National Guard. This strange armed formation would unite all the groups loyal to the ultra-nationalists and would be the bud of Ukraine’s future police and secret services.