Last Updated on September 17, 2024
Ryan Routh, the man who was arrested in Florida near Trump International Golf Course, where law enforcement says he was preparing to assassinate the 45th President, has deep ties to Ukraine, including to neo-Nazi militants accused of a litany of war crimes and backed by the CIA. In 2022, Routh appeared in a propaganda video released by the neo-Nazi Azov Brigade calling for more American support for the Ukrainian war effort. And his involvement didn’t end there. Routh also worked to recruit Afghans into the Ukrainian military and boasted of speaking to more than 100 contacts a day across the Ukrainian armed forces and government.
Ryan Routh is known to have made trips to Ukraine and surrounding nations, where he apparently became affiliated with the notorious Azov Brigade.
As National File has previously reported, the Azov Brigade has been linked numerous times to the CIA and other Western intelligence agencies and Azov fighters have received training on the US taxpayer dime. Earlier this year, the Biden-Harris Administration lifted a ban on the supply of American munitions for Azov and other controversial units in Ukraine, who’ve been accused of committing war crimes against ethnic Russians and Orthodox Christians.
Watch the Full Azov Propaganda Video HERE [Routh Appears Around 1:50]
Routh’s links to Ukraine extend far beyond the Azovs and in 2022, the same year that he appeared in the Azov propaganda video, Routh was interviewed by Newsweek and others about his work to recruit American-trained former members of the Afghan military for the Ukrainian battlefield after they’d been thrown out of their jobs and oftentimes forced to leave the country by the Taliban following America’s Afghan withdrawal.
According to multiple interview statements, Routh claimed he was in contact with more than 100 Ukrainians and that he was coordinating the movement of Afghan veterans to their units.
Routh’s work in trafficking Afghans to Ukraine was also featured in a 2023 New York Times write-up on Americans who’ve devoted their lives to Ukraine, in many cases, making a lot of illegal money in the process.
“Ryan Routh,” The New York Times reported, “is seeking recruits from among Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban. Mr. Routh, who spent several months in Ukraine last year, said he planned to move them, in some cases illegally, from Pakistan and Iran to Ukraine.”
In addition to his mentions in the media, it’s been revealed since his attempted assassination of President Trump that Ryan Routh was previously known as a threat to the Department of Homeland Security and other federal authorities, having been reported to DHS by a nurse who accompanied him to Ukraine.
That’s just one of Routh’s many noteworthy connections to law enforcement, which includes a lengthy criminal record of more than 100 estimated arrests and a 2002 conviction for possessing a weapon of mass destruction.
Amazingly, however, Routh never spent any appreciable time in custody.
This story is developing. Stay with National File for more information as it becomes available…
