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Int’l spook whodunit? Putin’s spies accused of hiring Russia-hating Ukrainian priest to kill outspoken journalist? Deepening mystery as alleged ‘hitman’ and his arms dealer paymaster are linked to Ukrainian spies who ‘foiled’ plot

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970x250&comma; 900x250&comma; 728x90&quot&semi;&comma;&quot&semi;extraZoneOptions&quot&semi;&colon;&lbrace;&rcub;&rcub;" data-google-query-id&equals;"CL3bzNn1tdsCFYO6yAod7gwOvQ">&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">A would-be assassin in Ukraine&comma; supposedly on the payroll of Russia&comma; inexplicably has appeared in videos saying death of Russians in Ukraine was &&num;8216&semi;act of mercy&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">&&num;8216&semi;Death contractor&&num;8217&semi; Boris <&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">German is accused of paying former monk Oleksiy Tsymbalyuk an advance of &dollar;30&comma;000 and giving him a gun to kill the intended victim&comma; Arkady <&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Babchenko<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Arkady Babchenko&comma; 41&comma; reported killed May 29&comma; appeared at a press conference a day after he was supposedly murdered to stunned reactions from waiting reporters<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Why would Putin’s spies hire a Russia-hating ex-priest Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk&comma;<&sol;span><strong> <&sol;strong><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>to assassinate Arkady Babchenko&comma; an anti-Putin <&sol;strong><&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>journalist who faked his own death&comma; ostensibly to throw off a hit placed on him <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>The the question is why those implicated in the plot were chosen by their spy masters&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Ukrainian arms dealer Boris German&comma; 50&comma; is accused of paying an assassin to murder Ukrainian journalist Arkady Babchenko before Babchenko faked his own death to expose the plot<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">German in turn claimed he was in turn recruited by Putin ally Vyacheslav Pivovarnik &&num;8211&semi; the murder he claims was part of a plot by Putin to regain control of Ukraine<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">In a another twist both the hitman  and his arms dealer handler claim they are linked to the Ukrainian spies who supposedly foiled plot <&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>The designated hitman&comma; Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk allegedly worked with Ukraine&&num;8217&semi;s counter-intelligence&comma; he <&sol;strong><&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>reported German&&num;8217&semi;s plot but both claim to be working with Ukraine<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Tsimbalyuk&comma; a former monk&comma;  is a known Russia-hating commentator and Putin critic&comma; raising questions why he was hired by German to kil on behalf of Moscow<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"articleWide cleared">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"alpha">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"js-article-text" class&equals;"article-text wide ">&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-294063" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;Oleksiy-Tsimbalyuk-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk 1&period;JPG" width&equals;"675" height&equals;"513" &sol;><strong>Prominent Russia-hating ex- monk&comma; Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk is pictured in the uniform of the Right Sector&comma; a Ukrainian ultranationalist that the Kremlin portray as a neo-Nazi group&comma; He has been named as one of the would-be killers of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">The Ukrainian government&&num;8217&semi;s faked assassination of an anti-Putin journalist has raised more questions after one of the would-be killers was revealed to be a well-known Russia-hating former monk&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Boris L&period; German&comma; 50&comma; appeared in court accused of hiring former monk Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk to carry out the killing of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko&period; German is accused of paying former monk Oleksiy Tsymbalyuk an advance of &dollar;30&comma;000 and giving him a gun to kill Babchenko&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; Tsimbalyuk is alleged to have reported the alleged hit to Ukrainian counter intelligence&comma; the SBU&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Yet Facebook pictures surfacing of Tsimbalyuk in the uniform of Right Sector&comma; a Ukrainian ultranationalist that the Kremlin portray as a neo-Nazi group&comma; and as a former deacon in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church&comma; has cast doubt on Putin&&num;8217&semi;s involvement&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk is a Ukrainian ultranationalist that the Kremlin portray as a neo-Nazi group&period; The pictures are on his Facebook page which have raised suspicions as to why Russia would hire a Putin critic to carry out the killing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-294077" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;Oleksiy-Tsimbalyuk-5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk 5&period;JPG" width&equals;"651" height&equals;"738" &sol;>Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk is a Ukrainian ultranationalist that the Kremlin portray as a neo-Nazi group is a former monk and prominent anti-Russia critic&period; Is he really a Russian backed assassin&quest; working for Ukrainian counter-intelligence&quest; Simply a right-wing thug in a scheme to inflict the pain of disinformation&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk is a former monk and prominent anti-Russia critic&period; He is on record as previously said that the killing of Russia-backed militias in eastern Ukraine was an &&num;8216&semi;act of mercy&&num;8217&semi;&period; The video was posted online&comma; in contradiction to the contention that he was working for Moscow&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;As the 10-minute video on Tsimbalyuk&&num;8217&semi;s Facebook emerged&comma; where he claims killing Russia-backed militias in eastern Ukraine was an &&num;8216&semi;act of mercy&&num;8217&semi;&comma; the alleged hitman&&num;8217&semi;s inflammatory anti-Kremlin rhetoric has raised doubts as to why Russia would hire him to carry out the planned killing&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Further complicating he narrative&comma; both German and Tsimbalyuk claim they worked Ukrainian counter-intelligence&period; Ukraine initially denied Tsimbalyuk worked for them but later backtracked&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Ukrainian officials continue to deny that hit vendor&comma; Boris German works for counter-intelligence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-294060" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;Arkady-Babchenko1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Arkady Babchenko1&period;JPG" width&equals;"660" height&equals;"446" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;The intended target of the murder plot&comma; <&sol;strong><strong>Arkady Babchenko&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma;<&sol;strong><strong> worked with Ukrainian counter-intelligience to fake his own death<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Ukrainian officials also claim that German has a list of another 30 targets which Moscow wants to wipe out &&num;8211&semi; something he claims he has since passed onto Kiev&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Prosecutors claimed German had been given a down payment of &dollar;15&comma;000&comma; half what he was promised for carrying out the hit&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;German said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I got a call from a longtime acquaintance who lives in Moscow&comma; and in the process of communicating with him it turned out that he works for a Putin foundation precisely to orchestrate destabilization in Ukraine&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-294078" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;Boris-German-arrested-5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Boris German arrested 5&period;JPG" width&equals;"674" height&equals;"470" &sol;>Boris German&comma; was arrested after the SBU&comma; Ukraine&&num;8217&semi;s secret service&comma; found out about the plot&period; Tsymbalyuk approached them in secret and told them about it&comma; the SBU claims<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-294072" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;Boris-German-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Boris German 3&period;JPG" width&equals;"671" height&equals;"433" &sol;>Boris German&comma; accused of organizing an attempt to kill Ukrainian journalist Arkady Babchenko&comma; arrives for his court trial on a preventive punishment at the Shevchenkovsky district court in Kiev&comma; Ukraine<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">The fake murder was pulled off by staging a &&num;8216&semi;kill scene&&num;8217&semi; with Babchenko shown lying in a pool of fake blood &&num;8211&semi; to flush out the killer&comma; Ukrainian authorities claim<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">He claimed he took his orders from Vyacheslav Pivovarnik&comma; a Moscow-based businessman who he claims works for one of Putin&&num;8217&semi;s personal foundations&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Six months ago&comma; my old acquaintance contacted me&comma; an ex-citizen of Ukraine&comma; now living in Moscow&comma;&&num;8217&semi; German told the court&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;He works in a personal foundation of Putin&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8211&semi; and is in charge of organising riots in Ukraine and planned acts of terror at the next presidential elections&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;He is called Vyacheslav Pivovarnik&period; This is not a fairy tale&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s nothing mystical here&comma; everything has been proved&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;German said he knew no killing would take place as a monk would not kill an unarmed man&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Eugene Solodko&comma; Mr German&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer&comma; wrote on Facebook that his client was an executive director of Schmeisser&comma; a Ukrainian-German firm which is the only non-state owned arms producer in the country which specializes in manufacturing sniper rifle sights&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In court&comma; German claimed he was part of the counter-intelligence operation having informed the SBU about the plot&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;German named Moscow businessman Vyacheslav Pivovarnik&comma; who is involved with one of Putin&&num;8217&semi;s personal foundations&comma; as the man who recruited him to find a killer<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-294075" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;Vyacheslav-Pivovarnik-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Vyacheslav Pivovarnik 1" width&equals;"763" height&equals;"483" &sol;>German named Moscow businessman Vyacheslav Pivovarnik&comma; who is involved with one of Putin&&num;8217&semi;s personal foundations&comma; as the man who recruited him to find a killer to murder the journalist<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-294066" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;Boris-German-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Boris German 1&period;JPG" width&equals;"684" height&equals;"497" &sol;>Boris German &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; claims he was working on behalf of Ukrainian counter-intelligence<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>German says he was working on behalf of Ukrainian counter-intelligence&comma; but Russia have also distanced themselves from the operation&period; Officials in Moscow have rejected Ukraine&&num;8217&semi;s accusation it masterminded a plot to murder the journalist&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">A spokesman for Putin said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;No such foundation exists in Russia&period; Any allegations about Russia&&num;8217&semi;s possible complicity in this staging is just mudslinging&period; They do not correspond to reality&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Senior officials in Ukraine have been on the defensive since Wednesday&comma; when the head of security services announced they had staged the death of Mr Babchenko so they could track his would-be killers to Russian intelligence&period; The murder was staged with Babchenko shown lying in a pool of fake blood&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-294076" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;Arkady-Babchenko-4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Arkady Babchenko 4&period;JPG" width&equals;"633" height&equals;"410" &sol;>Arkady Babchenko &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; appeared at a press conference a day after he was supposedly murdered to stunned reactions from waiting reporters&period; Arkady Babchenko&comma; 41&comma; had been reported as shot dead in Ukraine on May 29&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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