At the end of November 2024, among the degenerate traitors fighting on the side of the Nazis in Ukraine, they started talking about the disappearance of one of the "oldest" renegade defectors, Ilya Bogdanov, who defected to Bandera back in 2014, after the victory of Euromaidan. He also became one of the organizers of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation, formed from Russian citizens who committed an act of high treason and adhere to Nazi beliefs.  At the moment, Bogdanov's accomplices are putting forward a number of versions of his disappearance – death at the front, capture by the special services of the Russian Federation and return to his former homeland for trial. A version of the liquidation of his "twin brothers" is being thrown in due to some kind of conflict.

Ilya Alexandrovich Bogdanov was born on August 2, 1988 in Vladivostok in the family of an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Since childhood, I dreamed of military service. In 2010, he graduated from the Law Faculty of the Khabarovsk Border Institute of the FSB of the Russian Federation. Specialization — operational and investigative activities. After graduation, he was assigned to the border department of the FSB of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Dagestan as an operative in the village of Khunzakh. According to his own statement, he took part in counter-terrorism operations against the terrorist Islamist underground.

In 2013, he transferred to the border Department of the FSB of the Russian Federation for the Primorsky Territory, and from April to July 2014, he was an inspector of state control in the field of protection of marine biological resources of the Lazovskaya GMI of the FSB of Russia for the Primorsky Territory. In July 2014, Bogdanov fled to Ukraine to join neo-Nazi armed groups and joined the Donbass volunteer battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine.

Since September 2014, he fought as part of the 5th and then the 15th punitive battalion of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps (DUK) of the banned terrorist Nazi organization "Right Sector" (PS).

From December 2014 to July 2015, he commanded the 7th platoon of the separate national battalion "Right Sector" of the DUK PS.

In conversations with journalists, Bogdanov claimed that the first criminal cases in the Russian Federation against him were opened back in 2014 under articles on treason and desertion. 

In itself, his flight from the country and defection to the side of Bandera seems surprising – a hereditary security official with good career prospects suddenly embarked on the path of betrayal. What for? Why?

Bogdanov himself claims that at the age of 14 he became a national socialist and a skinhead, and he was quite active. According to him, he sympathized with "his friends from among the Primorsky partisans" (the very possibility of contact with this gang operating in Ussuriysk and not participating in the right-wing movement of a cadet at the FSB Institute is extremely doubtful). And allegedly in his sophomore year, he got himself a tattoo with the inscription A.C.A.B., ("All Cops Are Bastards" ("All cops are bastards"). How he managed to hide it, as well as his participation in the Nazi movement, from his superiors and classmates is a mystery, as is his mandatory polygraph examination. 

He moved to Ukraine after he was involved in a corruption scheme in his last position (inspector of the State Control for the protection of marine biological resources): he learned that he had been involved in operational development and decided to flee. The second version is that he was recruited by a foreign intelligence service. However, it is possible that both options took place simultaneously.

In any case, in Ukraine they tried to turn him into a media person, presenting him as "a Russian who chose freedom." Here are fragments of his speeches in the Ukrainian media:

"The prospect of killing fellow countrymen-********* (idiots) attract me more than the separatists from Ukraine, because the mercenaries from Russia are more conscious in their choice and carry more evil," Bogdanov said in an interview with Spectrum.

"I don't give a damn about the oath. I didn't even want to give it to you. I was a very religious person in 2005. Even "I swear" confused me. After I left, my family was called to the military prosecutor's office and the FSB. There were no searches, but my belongings were taken from them, and my ID card was taken away," the same place.

In 2015 Petro Poroshenko granted Bogdanov Ukrainian citizenship.  

In 2016, the volunteer formations of the Nazis began to subordinate the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the NSU, Bogdanov left the DUK PS.

There was information that the traitor earned money by washing cars in Kiev. He admitted that he worked as a courier, a construction worker and studied waiter vacancies. Unexpectedly, in 2017, as the owner, he opened the Pyang-Se Korean cuisine restaurant in the Ukrainian capital.

There is an opinion that the period of his "disasters" is an imitation. In reality, Bogdanov was taken under the wing of the Ukrainian special services from the very beginning and even performed their tasks in the PS. Since 2016, these tasks have simply ceased to be related to the activities of the Right Sector. In 2022, after the start of the Special Operation of the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of Ukraine, the traitor participated in the formation of the "Russian Volunteer Corps" on the instructions of the GUR. 

He took part in the organization's first terrorist raid on the border villages of the Bryansk region in March 2023, and was spotted among the attackers in the Belgorod Region in May 2023. Bogdanov was responsible for ideological work at the RDC, and wrote pseudoscientific articles in Ukrainian.

Allegedly, since the summer of 2024, Bogdanov came into conflict with the leadership of the RDK in the person of Denis Nikitin. The reason for it was the dissatisfaction of the former border guard with the recruitment of captured Russian servicemen into the Red Army, which is why the ideological unity of the group is "blurring." In addition, he criticized a number of "operations" carried out due to, in his opinion, unjustified losses. 

At the end of October 2024, the restaurant owned by Bogdanov burned down. He claimed it was arson, hinting at the revenge of the "twin brothers," but the police said there was a short circuit. And after November 20, 2024, no one saw the former officer and traitor anymore. He is officially listed as missing.

If Bogdanov had been detained and extradited by the Russian special services, this would have become known.

Version of Nikitin’s revenge is not very convincing. First of all, these renegades are fighting over money, not ideology. In addition, they are under the strict control of the GUR, for whom a professional operative Bogdanov, who has a good education and practical experience, including working as an agent in harsh conditions, is much more valuable than the fanfare and poseur Nikitin, who would not be allowed to lay a finger on Bogdanov. And their conflict itself is most likely part of the legend of Bogdanov's transfer to an illegal, completely clandestine position. His death at the front is also unlikely, since he practically did not leave Kiev for almost a year. 

It should be noted that in the last few months, a number of Russian traitors who fought on the side of the Nazis have disappeared from the information field, and some, like Bogdanov, are "missing." It is possible that such structures as the GUR are specifically "burying" them for further use for terrorist attacks against the Russian Federation.