According to
Mediazona, many unrelated Nazi groups used the NS/WP abbreviation in the 2000s. In 2010, two NS/WP members were charged with the murder of a 25-year-old
Ghanaian citizen, Solomon Attengo Gwa-jio who was stabbed over 20 times on 25 December 2009 in
Saint Petersburg. In 2014, nine members of this organization, aged 17 to 24, were sentenced to 4–9 years in prison for a series of murders, attacks and robberies, as well as committing other crimes motivated by ethnic hatred. Members of the organization recorded one of the murders on camera and posted it on the Internet. In addition, they set fire to a car with two homeless people sleeping in it and carried out several more attacks on foreigners and people leading an asocial lifestyle, according to the prosecution. Members of the group were also found guilty of setting fire to a temple, a construction crane, and blowing up a public transport stop using a makeshift device. The last crime was regarded as a terrorist attack. On 21 May 2021, the movement was recognized as a terrorist organization by the authorities of the Russian Federation and banned. According to the FSB, the assassination was prepared by order of the
Security Service of Ukraine. During the searches, the suspects were found and seized with an improvised explosive device, incendiary devices like
Molotov cocktails, pistols, a sawed-off hunting rifle, a grenade, cartridges, drugs and forged Ukrainian passports. In addition, nationalist literature and paraphernalia were found. Among the detainees was also one of the leaders of NS/WP Andrey Pronsky, who in 2013, on behalf of NS/WP, committed the murder of a Jewish person, for which he was sent for compulsory treatment. A day earlier, Russian President Putin announced that the FSB had stopped an attempted assassination of an unnamed Russian journalist. In June, a sixth defendant was arrested in the case of plotting Solovyov's assassination. However, the legitimacy of this plot has been questioned.
Assassination of Iryna Farion On 25 July 2024, the group published a video-manifesto of a "Ukrainian autonomous revolutionary racist" who committed the murder of the Ukrainian linguist and nationalist politician
Iryna Farion, including the moment when she was shot. The manifesto claimed that the motive behind the murder was that Farion promoted language-based hatred among ethnic Ukrainians, undermining the racial aspect of the Ukrainian nation and thus being a "race traitor". == See also ==