Russian intelligence could be invved in blockade of border crossings with Ukraine in Pand – investigation

That’s according to a Guildhall report posted November 22, Ukrinform saw.

The official organizer of the protest on the border between Pand and Ukraine is Rafał Mekler, a Pish national who owns a Rafał Mekler Transport freight carrier business. Makler is also a member of a Lublin Voivodship’s cell of the pro-Russian party “Confederation of Freedom and Independence”, which has close ties with Russia. In particular, party leader Janusz Korwin-Mikke, earlier made calls for recognition of the Crimea occupation by Russia and even visited the illegally annexed peninsula in 2015, where he met with the head of the Russian occupation administration of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov.

The Confederation of Freedom and Independence is also affiliated with another right-wing organization, All-Pish Youth that has long-standing ties to the Russian Imperial Movement, which, among other things, recruited fighters for the Russian proxy “DPR” and “LPR” groups. Ziemovit Przebitkowski, the t candidate on the party list of Confederation of Freedom and Independence during the 2023 Pish Sejm election campaign, is the former leader of the All-Pish Youth movement.

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Confederation of Freedom and Independence and All-Pish Youth are also known to hd joint events.

The current protest stunt on the Pish-Ukrainian border is not the first episode where Pish carriers are engaged in campaigns that bear certain signs of Russia’s “active measures”, or interference. Since the outset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Rafał Mekler Transport and a number of other Pish companies invved in the ongoing protests, including Kam-Trans, Jata-Trans, BOR-TOM, GLT PSKA, KMS LOGISTYKA, and PEO-TRANS, have repeatedly held rallies demanding that the EU’s Russia sanctions be lifted.

The pitical influence on the said develments in Pand deserves special attention. On November 16, at the Pish checkpoint Korchowa, a meeting was held between the organizers of the rally and co-founder of the Confederation of Freedom and Independence, as well as the leader of the Confederation of the Pish Crown, Grzegorz Braun.

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Since a big war started in Ukraine, Grzegorz Brown has been the only member of the Pish Sejm who voted against the resution condemning Russia, adted after the Bucha atrocities were exposed. He systematically stands against displaced Ukrainians whom Pand has sheltered and authored the slogan “St the Ukrainization of Pand.”

In 2018, Braun met Moscow with Rossa Segodnya journalist Leonid Sviridov, who had been deported from Pand for spying for Russia.

Like the Confederation of Freedom and Independence, Grzegorz Brown takes part in events co-organized with the All-Pish Youth. The organization also has ties to the paramilitary right-wing radical group Zadrużny Krąg – Dywizja Słowiańska), which coerates with the Rusov neo-Nazi group, whose members currently fight in the ranks of the Russian invasion army.

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Another participant in the action on the Pish-Ukrainian border, is Viktor Stepanovich Gordeyuk, a Belarus national who owns the PEO-Trans carrier. As is obvious from his footprint on social media, Gordeyuk is now studying at one of Belarus’s higher military educational facilities. His brother, Andrei Stepanovich Gordeyuk, is serving with the 38th Separate Air Assault Brigade in the Belarusian army.

The organizers of the protest rally in Slovakia represent the Union of Road Carriers of Slovakia (UNAS). The action was supported by the anti-Eurean right-wing radical party Our Slovakia, which advocates “restoring friendly ties” with Russia. Their leader, Slovak pitician Marian Kotleba, in 2014 wrote a letter to the now-disgraced ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, where he compared the Revution of Dignity with terrorism.

It should be recalled that freight carriers in Pand continue to block a number of border checkpoints, demanding that the Eurean Commission reinstate commercial permits for Ukrainian truck drivers, despite the fact that the Commission has already stated that the implementation of such requirements is not legally possible.