correct: that Ochsenreiter was working at the behest of the Russian security agencies. “This is a guy who knows how to do pro-Kremlin stuff without being ordered by the Kremlin to do something,” he said.
1/14 Falanga & Zmiana “are all one company. It’s one group of people essentially,” Shekhovtsov told the Kyiv Post. “It’s very difficult to distinguish between them.”/Despite these connections,Shekhovtsov says it’s unclear whether one of the claims of Polish investigators is correct:
1/14 In2017〜Media reported at the time that Piskorski had maintained close contacts with several AfD functionaries—including Ochsenreiter, who took part in election observation missions organized by Piskorski in eastern Ukrainian regions/ Michal P is a member of Poland's National Radical Camp
Ochsenreiter, editor of the right-wing German magazine Zuerst! (First!), has been a frequent commentator in Russian state media over the past five years/ He has also worked in recent months as a consultant for Markus Frohnmaier, a member of Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, from the AfD/
1/14 Michal Prokopowicz, 28,told a Krakow court onJan14that🇩🇪journalist Manuel Ochsenreiter provided instructions for theFebruary4,2018,attack on the headquarters of the Hungarian Cultural Association in Uzhhorod /Ochsenreiter,has ties toPolish right-wing activists,including Mateusz Piskorski/
2/23 “Society of Hungarian culture of Zakarpattia” on2Feb/“It’s Adrian Marglewski,〜resident of Krakow, & Tomasz Rafal Szimkowiak,〜of Bydgoszcz. Both are Polish citizens&followers of the right-wing radical organization “Falanga,” members of which participated in hostilities inDonbas