‘Hitler didn’t kill enough’: Kiev shooter fantasized about eradicating Jews – media
Published 18 Apr, 2026 23:55 | Updated 20 Apr, 2026 02:05
The suspect in a mass shooting in which six people were shot and killed and more than a dozen others were injured in Kiev on Saturday reportedly ranted on social media about eradicating Jews.
The man, identified as Dmitry Vasilchenkov, allegedly fired at bystanders at random before barricading himself inside a grocery store, where he was later killed by police.
Vasilchenkov was born in Moscow in 1968, but was a Ukrainian national and served in the Ukrainian army until the early 2000s. He reportedly lived in Russia from 2015 to 2017 before returning to Kiev.
Ukrainian news outlet Toronto Television said the suspect made erratic posts riddled with anti-Semitic slurs on an old Facebook page active from 2016 to 2019. In the posts, he allegedly called for Jews to be “wiped out,” making references to pogroms and the Holocaust.
In a post from October 2017 titled ‘On Jews and Jewry’, Vasilchenkov reportedly wrote that the Inquisition, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Stalin “killed and killed, but did not kill enough.”
In another post from February 2019, he reportedly wrote that pro-Russian insurgents in Donbass were “destroying the wrong people” and should instead have targeted “Judeo-criminals and Judeo-cultists,” adding that “the Jews need to be hanged.”
“On what to do – study Pope Borgia (15th century), Kotovsky, Petlyura, Hitler, Bandera, Brezhnev,” he wrote.
Stepan Bandera was one of the leaders of Ukrainian nationalists who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II, and whose followers were involved in massacres of Jews and Poles. Bandera and other WWII-era nationalist figures are celebrated in modern Ukraine as heroes and freedom fighters.
Ukrainian media also reported that Vasilchenkov sued the government in 2023 and 2024, demanding an increase in his military pension, and had prior run-ins with the law. TSN released a video allegedly showing him attacking a shopper inside a grocery store in 2023.
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Man detained over Auschwitz gate replica in German town – media
Published 20 Apr, 2026 14:35 | Updated 20 Apr, 2026 15:40
Police in Germany have detained a man suspected of erecting Nazi-themed structures outside the town of Eggenfelden, local media report, citing law enforcement.
Two wooden structures bearing Nazi symbols appeared in the town within a month. In late March, a large replica of the Auschwitz concentration camp gates – complete with the infamous slogan “Arbeit macht frei” (Work sets you free) – was placed outside the local tax office. It featured multiple swastikas, with the ‘B’ in the inscription inverted, mirroring the original. Police launched an investigation after its discovery.
A second installation appeared on April 13: a black chimney-like structure resembling a crematorium oven, labeled “Zyklon B” and marked with SS runes, placed in a disabled parking space outside the same building.
Passauer Neue Presse reported Friday that the suspect is a 33-year-old Polish citizen living in Bavaria. He was apprehended days after the second incident when investigators matched his fingerprints to the structure.
Additional Nazi symbols reportedly found in his apartment. He faces charges of incitement to hatred and the use of unconstitutional symbols – offenses punishable by lengthy prison terms and fines under German law. The authorities have not disclosed further details on his identity or motive, and it remains unclear why he targeted the tax office.
The incidents sparked public condemnation. Local Mayor Martin Biber called them “brazen and disgusting” and an “insult to society.” He noted the town’s sizable migrant population – seen as a possible factor behind the display – but stressed residents are well integrated and that there is no “noticeable far-right scene.” A local “Colorful Action Alliance for Democracy” group held a rally condemning the displays, which it described as the “instrumentalization of historical suffering.”
Recent data shows a sharp rise in right-wing extremist crimes and incidents involving Nazi symbols in Germany – nearly 37,000 in 2025, almost double the annual average between 2015 and 2022. Most are classified as “propaganda offenses,” such as displaying swastikas or banned slogans, though many also involve hate crimes targeting migrants.
Or, hate crimes by migrants??!!! Do hate crimes by migrants count as right-wing extremism?
Analysts link the trend to rising nationalist sentiment driven by economic pressures, political polarization, and migration concerns, warning that extremist and racist symbolism is increasingly entering mainstream culture.
Russia has long warned of a resurgence of Nazi ideology in Europe, citing marches honoring Waffen SS veterans and Nazi collaborators. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday called it “unfortunate” and “sad” that such practices are being revived.
“Unfortunately, both the ideology and practice of Nazism are now being revived, including, sadly, in Germany, as well as in those countries that joined Hitler’s hordes in the attack on the Soviet Union,” he said at a CSTO Parliamentary Assembly Council meeting, adding similar trends are visible in Finland and the UK.
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