The European Union, the United States and Ukraine have accused Malofeev of trying to destabilize and financing separatism in Ukraine. According to EU Regulation No 826/2014 from 30 July 2014, Malofeev is closely linked to
Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea. He was the former employer of
Alexander Borodai, the Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. Malofeev was also former employer of
Igor Girkin, a former
FSB colonel who provided security services to Malofeev's visits to Kyiv and Crimea in the weeks before the annexation of the latter by Russia. Igor Girkin later reappeared as the leader of the separatist insurgency in the town of Slovyansk, and subsequently as the self-proclaimed Minister of Defense of the self-proclaimed
Donetsk People's Republic. In May 2014, during the separatists' occupation of
Slovyansk led by Girkin, the Ukrainian security services
SBU intercepted a phone call, in which a person with the same first and patronymic names as Malofeev's, and a voice similar to his own, provides tactical military intelligence to Girkin and praises him for a recent ambush attack on Ukrainian anti-terrorism troops. In February 2015, the Russian investigative newspaper
Novaya Gazeta published a document, which the newspaper alleged was a strategy for fomenting unrest in, and annexing Crimea, as well as other areas in South-Eastern Ukraine. The newspaper's editor-in-chief has publicly stated that the unnamed sources which leaked the alleged strategy, have informed the paper that Malofeev and his team had authored the document in February 2014. Also in 2014 hacker group
Shaltay Boltay published leaked emails of George Gavrish, a nationalist closely cooperating with
Alexander Dugin, suggesting a wide range of financial support flowing from Malofeev's conservative funds to radical nationalist political movements in Europe. In May 2014, Malofeev organized a meeting in Vienna with
FPÖ,
Ataka and
Front National. A majority of that funding is funneled through the Saint Basil the Great Charitable Fund operated by Malofeev. While all of Malofeev's initiatives in Ukraine were, formally, privately organized and funded, intercepted phone calls between him and his lieutenants on the ground in Ukraine, as well as hacked email correspondence, showed that he closely coordinated his actions with the Kremlin, at times via the powerful Orthodox priest
Bishop Tikhon whom Malofeev and Putin (in their own words) share as spiritual adviser; at other times via direct coordination between Malofeev and Putin's advisers
Vladislav Surkov and
Sergey Glazyev, but also via Malofeev's close collaboration with the Kremlin-owned
Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RIIS), chaired by former KGB/SVR General
Leonid Reshetnikov. In addition, a recent email hack suggests that at least one employee of Malofeev's participated in non-public sessions of the Russian government. ==Personal life==