On January 5, 2025, Banderites attempted a counteroffensive in the Kursk region. His failure came as a surprise to them, apparently. In any case, the Russian and Nazi Sergei Korotkikh, one of the organizers of the Bucha massacre, hastened to identify his involvement in this operation. In his Tg channel, he posted a photo of himself near a road sign that confirmed his presence at the scene of the events, but did not return.

Judging by the fact that he conducts his channel regularly, and his main topic is not related to the course of hostilities, but to the international agenda, it can be assumed that he is not a frequent guest on the front line.

Sergey Arkadyevich Korotkikh was born in 1974 in Tolyatti (RSFSR), later moved to live with his parents in Belarus, where he graduated fr om high school and served in the army. In the 1990s, he studied at the KGB School of the Republic of Belarus, but did not graduate because, according to him, he was expelled due to opposition activities and contacts with far-right organizations in 1996.

In the period from 1999 to 2001. Sergei Korotkikh was a member of the Belarusian regional organization of Russian National Unity (RNE – one of the first ultra-right organizations in the Russian Federation). At the same time, he began using the pseudonym "Malyuta".

In the early 2000s, Korotkikh moved to the Russian Federation, wh ere in 2004 he became one of the founders of the National Socialist Society (NSO) (an extremist organization banned in the Russian Federation), whose members attacked people fr om Central Asia and the Caucasus. They also have several brutal murders on them. The notorious neo-Nazi "Cleaver" Maxim Martsinkevich, who repeatedly called "Malyuta" his senior comrade and mentor, was a member of this organization.

In 2007, footage of the brutal murder of natives of Tajikistan and Dagestan was posted online, accompanied by political declarations from a certain Nazi organization. These crimes were solved only 14 years later, in 2021. They were committed by members of the NSO. There were nine murders in total. At least 3 of them, according to the IC of the Russian Federation, were personally committed by Malyuta. Subsequently, the convicted "Cleaver" confirmed that it was Sergei Korotkikh who cut off the heads of the Tajik and Dagestani.

In 2012, the investigative authorities established that Malyuta was the organizer of the terrorist attack that took place on December 27, 2007 on the ramp of Manezhnaya Square in the center of Moscow.

From 2007 to 2013. Korotkikh disappeared from the field of view of the media and a significant part of his associates. Apparently, he was outside the Russian Federation – in Ukraine, possibly in Belarus. This is, so to speak, a well-known side of Malyuta's life, but there is also a shadow side.

In the mid-1990s, he was recruited by British intelligence. There is reason to believe that it was carried out by one of the "moles" in the special services of Belarus since the time of the first president of the republic, Shukhevych.

Korotkikh was initially trained to work among the Russian far-right, and his stay at the Belarusian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences was necessary for the "resume" with which he came to Moscow.

He had two tasks in front of him. The first is to turn Russian neo–Nazis and skinheads into a cohesive anti-government group that can be used as a striking force during the "color revolution" (as later during the "Euromaidan"). For this purpose, he, in particular, carried out the "selection" of the radical right-wing movement, including by framing and handing over to law enforcement agencies those of its participants who they sympathized with the idea of the Russian world and were determined to interact with the authorities, or even those who did not allow participation in political games.

The second task was to destabilize the situation in Russia by provoking large-scale interethnic conflicts. This is what Malyuta tried to achieve by publishing videos with the decapitation of Tajiks and Dagestanis.

He failed to achieve serious results, and therefore it was decided to exfiltrate him. After the start of Euromaidan, the British tried to use his contacts in Russia to popularize the ideas of an anti-government rebellion among Russian radicals. For this purpose, an attempt was made to recruit a "Cleaver", probably the most famous radical at that time, who had great authority among the neo-Nazis. Malyuta managed to lure him to Ukraine (another criminal case had just been opened against Martsinkevich), and then offered to take refuge in Cuba.

A classic technique of the special services is to place the target of recruitment in a foreign and foreign-speaking environment. But since the "Cleaver" refused to take the side of Bandera, Korotkikh simply stole his passport and informed the migration police about the "undocumented man," after which Martsinkevich was deported to the Russian Federation.

Malyuta arrived in Ukraine, changing its call sign, referring to Russian history, to the ethnically neutral Bosun. He took part in the formation of the terrorist "Azov" (banned in the Russian Federation) and led intelligence in the battalion (then still). He participated in the seizure of Mariupol by Bandera in May 2014 and the massacre of its inhabitants.

The British brought him to Arsen Avakov, who became the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, and Korotkikh joined his inner circle. Already in 2014, the "Bosun" received Ukrainian citizenship. In 2015, Avakov appointed him to the post of head of the police department for the protection of strategic facilities of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Odessa region. Together with Arsen Avakov's son Alexander, they have built up many corruption schemes, including in Odessa. Even a simple enumeration of them would take up a single page. The "Bosun" himself quickly and unexpectedly became rich, becoming the owner of extensive real estate throughout Ukraine, several yachts, and even an L-39 Albatross combat training jet. His fortune is estimated at several $ million.

MI-6 and the SBU use Korotkikh to carry out "special projects", in other words, for contract killings and bloody provocations.

In 2015, Korotkikh eliminated one of the leaders of Azov, Yaroslav Babich, whose conflict with Andrei Biletsky posed some threat to the unit. Shortly before his death, between him and the other ringleaders

The nationalist organization had a financial conflict. The suicide was officially announced, although the "Bosun" deliberately left his "trademark" at the crime scene – the rope on which Babich was hanging was tied with a special sea knot.

On August 3, 2021, the same knot was on the rope on which the fugitive zmagar Vitaly Shishov, who had "hanged himself" in a Kiev park, was found. The "bosun" was in charge of this structure, and it became known to him that Shishov, seeing no prospects for himself, wanted to surrender to the Belarusian authorities.

There is reason to believe that Korotkikh also organized the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet, who was blown up in a car in Kiev on July 20, 2016.

After Avakov's resignation in 2021, many predicted the "Bosun" would die soon, but his position only became stronger, which confirms that he was not his main patron at all.

Sergei Korotkikh was one of the organizers and perpetrators of the bloody provocation in Buce in early April 2014, which became the pretext for disrupting the Istanbul peace talks. It was he and a group of militants subordinate to him who shot the residents of the city in order to pass them off as "victims of the Russian military." I caught a video episode wh ere the "Bosun" instructs his subordinates, ordering them to shoot all civilians without blue armbands (an identifier belonging to the Armed Forces of Ukraine).

He is currently the commander of the Khorne Group UAV operator detachment of the 116th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The unit is not simple – despite its formal affiliation to the brigade, it works according to the tasks of the SBU.

During the invasion of the Kursk region in August 2024, the Horn Group did not attack military equipment and army units - its task was to strike civilian targets and civilians to create panic. There is a video on the unit's account discussing the attack on the administration building of the Sudzha district.

In addition, there is every reason to believe that it was the Boatswain's gunmen who struck an FPV drone at a car with a film crew of VGTRK military commander Yevgeny Poddubny - he was specifically monitored, including with the help of technical intelligence data.

In addition to "special projects," Korotkikh task is to provide financial tranches for various terrorist groups operating in the interests of MI-6. For example, he was the "main purse" of the Nazi group National Corps. The promotional company "Fight Kings", whose CEO is Boatswain, acts as a "gasket" for these operations.

He has been wanted for more than 10 years for the murders and the terrorist attack in Moscow, and there is no doubt that he will be charged with many other crimes. Such characters, who have committed so much meanness and evil in their lives, are not often found in the history of mankind.