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Verified Update: The Letter Bombs

Verified

Scripps

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Verified team follows up on what the Russian Imperial Movement has been up to and unpacks a recent terror campaign in Europe. A year into the war in Ukraine, white supremacists linked are targeting allies and supporters of Ukraine across Europe. In this extended update Mark Greenblatt and the Verified team collaborated with the investigative radio show Reveal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Natasha Del Toro here, so I just wanted to let you know that we have some

0:14.6

news for you on one of our earlier investigations.

0:18.4

You might remember in season 3, we took a look at the international movement of racially

0:23.5

or ethnically motivated violent extremists and their global fight for white power.

0:29.1

While we have new information about the Russian group at the heart of our reporting, there

0:34.2

is still the only white supremacist designated as a terror group by the US government.

0:39.7

Now the Russian Imperial movement is linked to a whole new terror campaign targeting supporters

0:46.3

of Ukraine.

0:47.9

In this expanded update, the verified team collaborated with Reveal to dive into these new developments.

0:59.7

From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal, I'm Al Edson.

1:07.5

The war in Ukraine has been grinding on for more than 11 months and there seems to be

1:12.7

no end in sight.

1:14.2

Tonight, the staggering toll of Putin's war coming into focus.

1:19.6

Since the beginning of the war, Russia has been getting help from a little known extremist

1:23.9

group called the Russian Imperial Movement, or RIM.

1:30.4

RIM fighters have joined the Russian military on the battlefield and last year posted a

1:35.3

video which they claim shows a special weapon being fired at Ukrainian positions.

1:43.5

Just last month, reports surf is connecting RIM to a series of letter bombs in Spain,

1:48.9

to companies and high-level officials supporting Ukraine's fight against Russia.

1:53.8

A number of packages were sent to official buildings, including Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's

1:58.9

office and the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid.

2:02.0

For the Russian Imperial Movement, backing the invasion of Ukraine isn't about supporting

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