Ukraine's Kill List

#Mirotvorets, (English translation: "Peacemaker") which claims to be based in “Warsaw, Poland and Langley, Virginia” – the headquarters of the CIA – is a notorious website that posts private information of individuals labeled enemies of #Ukraine without any process or trial.

It was established in August 2014, as #Kiev launched its “anti-terrorist operation” against civilians in #Donbass, and allegedly maintains ties with Ukrainian and Western security services. 

“This kill list is maintained by the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior, which lists an address in Langley, Virginia, has an IP in Brussels,” said American political activist Jackson Hinkle, who was also added to the database on Wednesday. Hinkle noted that Mirotvorets celebrated last year’s assassination of Russian journalist Darya Dugina, which US intelligence has reportedly blamed on sections of the Ukrainian government.

On March 3 NBC News correspondent Keir Simmons has been placed on the Ukrainian state-linked ‘Mirotvorets’ kill list for “crimes” against the country. The government in Kiev has also announced it is investigating the British journalist after he filed a report from #Crimea.

“Visiting the temporarily occupied Crimea from the territory of the Russian Federation is a violation of the legislation of Ukraine,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said.

Meanwhile, the Mirotvorets website has published a photo of Simmons and his personal details, accusing the reporter of “violating Ukraine’s sovereignty,” participating in Russian propaganda, and “attempted legalization of the occupation.”

Several prominent people were killed after the site declared them public enemies, including writer and historian Oles Buzina and politician Oleg Kalashnikov. Western media outlets mostly ignored its existence until 2016, when Mirotvorets targeted dozens of journalists and human right activists for daring to operate in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. The move drew condemnation from the OSCE, which declared it “simply unacceptable for journalists to be threatened for what they say or write.”

More recently, Mirotvorets has targeted Croatian President Zoran Milanovic, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, retired US diplomat Henry Kissinger, and rock musician Roger Waters, for deviating from the official narratives about the conflict.

In addition, several of our regular guests on Maverick News are on the list, including former U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, journalists John Mark Dougan and Eva Bartlett, and Dmitry Polyanskiy, #Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations.

The US and its allies have continued to send weapons and money to Ukraine, claiming Kiev is fighting for “democracy” and “freedom.”

On this episode of Maverick News, we discuss the Ukrainian kill list.

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