Ukraine's Military Units are Chock Full of Neo Nazis

[Anonymous]

Ukraine is the most openly racist country in Europe. The people fighting off Russians don't want the large scale immigration that Russia has had under Putin. They also are responsible for many war crimes.



Profile: Who are Ukraine's far-right Azov regiment?

The far-right neo-Nazi group has expanded to become part of Ukraine's armed forces, a street militia and a political party.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1 ... v-regiment">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment



Azov is a far-right all-volunteer infantry military unit whose members – estimated at 900 – are ultra-nationalists and accused of harbouring neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideology.



The unit was initially formed as a volunteer group in May 2014 out of the ultra-nationalist Patriot of Ukraine gang, and the neo-Nazi Social National Assembly (SNA) group. Both groups engaged in xenophobic and neo-Nazi ideals and physically assaulted migrants, the Roma community and people opposing their views.



As a battalion, the group fought on the front lines against pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, the eastern region of Ukraine. Just before launching the invasion, Putin recognised the independence of two rebel-held regions from Donbas.



A few months after recapturing the strategic port city of Mariupol from the Russian-backed separatists, the unit was officially integrated into the National Guard of Ukraine on November 12, 2014, and exacted high praise from then-President Petro Poroshenko.



"These are our best warriors," he said at an awards ceremony in 2014. "Our best volunteers."



Who founded Azov?

The unit was led by Andriy Biletsky, who served as the the leader of both the Patriot of Ukraine (founded in 2005) and the SNA (founded in 2008).  The SNA is known to have carried out attacks on minority groups in Ukraine.



In 2010, Biletsky said Ukraine's national purpose was to "lead the white races of the world in a final crusade ... against Semite-led Untermenschen [inferior races]".



Biletsky was elected to parliament in 2014. He left Azov as elected officials cannot be in the military or police force. He remained an MP until 2019.



The 42-year-old is nicknamed Bely Vozd – or White Ruler – by his supporters. He established the far-right National Corps party in October 2016, whose core base is veterans of Azov.



Before becoming part of Ukraine's armed forces, who funded Azov?

The unit received backing from Ukraine's interior minister in 2014, as the government had recognised its own military was too weak to fight off the pro-Russian separatists and relied on paramilitary volunteer forces.



These forces were privately funded by oligarchs – the most known being Igor Kolomoisky, an energy magnate billionaire and then-governor of the Dnipropetrovska region.



In addition to Azov, Kolomoisky funded other volunteer battalions such as the Dnipro 1 and Dnipro 2, Aidar and Donbas units.



Azov received early funding and assistance from another oligarch: Serhiy Taruta, the billionaire governor of Donetsk region.



Neo-Nazi ideology

In 2015, Andriy Diachenko, the spokesperson for the regiment at the time said that 10 to 20 percent of Azov's recruits were Nazis.



In January 2018, Azov rolled out its street patrol unit called National Druzhyna to "restore" order in the capital, Kyiv. Instead, the unit carried out pogroms against the Roma community and attacked members of the LGBTQ community.



"Ukraine is the world's only nation to have a neo-Nazi formation in its armed forces," a correspondent for the US-based magazine, the Nation, wrote in 2019.



Human rights violations and war crimes

A 2016 report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHA) has accused the Azov regiment of violating international humanitarian law.



The report detailed incidents over a period from November 2015-February 2016 where Azov had embedded their weapons and forces in used civilian buildings, and displaced residents after looting civilian properties. The report also accused the battalion of raping and torturing detainees in the Donbas region.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Ukraine is the most openly racist country in Europe. The people fighting off Russians don't want the large scale immigration that Russia has had under Putin. They also are responsible for many war crimes.



Profile: Who are Ukraine's far-right Azov regiment?

The far-right neo-Nazi group has expanded to become part of Ukraine's armed forces, a street militia and a political party.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1 ... v-regiment">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment



Azov is a far-right all-volunteer infantry military unit whose members – estimated at 900 – are ultra-nationalists and accused of harbouring neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideology.



The unit was initially formed as a volunteer group in May 2014 out of the ultra-nationalist Patriot of Ukraine gang, and the neo-Nazi Social National Assembly (SNA) group. Both groups engaged in xenophobic and neo-Nazi ideals and physically assaulted migrants, the Roma community and people opposing their views.



As a battalion, the group fought on the front lines against pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, the eastern region of Ukraine. Just before launching the invasion, Putin recognised the independence of two rebel-held regions from Donbas.



A few months after recapturing the strategic port city of Mariupol from the Russian-backed separatists, the unit was officially integrated into the National Guard of Ukraine on November 12, 2014, and exacted high praise from then-President Petro Poroshenko.



"These are our best warriors," he said at an awards ceremony in 2014. "Our best volunteers."



Who founded Azov?

The unit was led by Andriy Biletsky, who served as the the leader of both the Patriot of Ukraine (founded in 2005) and the SNA (founded in 2008).  The SNA is known to have carried out attacks on minority groups in Ukraine.



In 2010, Biletsky said Ukraine's national purpose was to "lead the white races of the world in a final crusade ... against Semite-led Untermenschen [inferior races]".



Biletsky was elected to parliament in 2014. He left Azov as elected officials cannot be in the military or police force. He remained an MP until 2019.



The 42-year-old is nicknamed Bely Vozd – or White Ruler – by his supporters. He established the far-right National Corps party in October 2016, whose core base is veterans of Azov.



Before becoming part of Ukraine's armed forces, who funded Azov?

The unit received backing from Ukraine's interior minister in 2014, as the government had recognised its own military was too weak to fight off the pro-Russian separatists and relied on paramilitary volunteer forces.



These forces were privately funded by oligarchs – the most known being Igor Kolomoisky, an energy magnate billionaire and then-governor of the Dnipropetrovska region.



In addition to Azov, Kolomoisky funded other volunteer battalions such as the Dnipro 1 and Dnipro 2, Aidar and Donbas units.



Azov received early funding and assistance from another oligarch: Serhiy Taruta, the billionaire governor of Donetsk region.



Neo-Nazi ideology

In 2015, Andriy Diachenko, the spokesperson for the regiment at the time said that 10 to 20 percent of Azov's recruits were Nazis.



In January 2018, Azov rolled out its street patrol unit called National Druzhyna to "restore" order in the capital, Kyiv. Instead, the unit carried out pogroms against the Roma community and attacked members of the LGBTQ community.



"Ukraine is the world's only nation to have a neo-Nazi formation in its armed forces," a correspondent for the US-based magazine, the Nation, wrote in 2019.



Human rights violations and war crimes

A 2016 report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHA) has accused the Azov regiment of violating international humanitarian law.



The report detailed incidents over a period from November 2015-February 2016 where Azov had embedded their weapons and forces in used civilian buildings, and displaced residents after looting civilian properties. The report also accused the battalion of raping and torturing detainees in the Donbas region.

A little secret the white libtards runing the West don't want you to know.

[Anonymous]

A little secret the white libtards runing the West don't want you to know.

Everything the media and our politicians has fed us about this war is bullshit.

[Bricktop]

A little secret the white libtards runing the West don't want you to know.

If it is a secret, why are there pages of info about it on Wikipedia?



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion">//https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion



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[Anonymous]

A little secret the white libtards runing the West don't want you to know.

If it is a secret, why are there pages of info about it on Wikipedia?



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion">//https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion



 ac_biggrin

I haven't heard CNN, CBC, MSNBC, CTV, BBC, and TorStar mention them one time. And even though only ten percent of Ukraine's military are Nazi members, the majority of officers agree with them.

[Anonymous]

A little secret the white libtards runing the West don't want you to know.

If it is a secret, why are there pages of info about it on Wikipedia?



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion">//https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion



 ac_biggrin

You were aware of this Bricktop?

[Gaon]

Ukraine is the most openly racist country in Europe. The people fighting off Russians don't want the large scale immigration that Russia has had under Putin. They also are responsible for many war crimes.



Profile: Who are Ukraine's far-right Azov regiment?

The far-right neo-Nazi group has expanded to become part of Ukraine's armed forces, a street militia and a political party.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1 ... v-regiment">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment



Azov is a far-right all-volunteer infantry military unit whose members – estimated at 900 – are ultra-nationalists and accused of harbouring neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideology.



The unit was initially formed as a volunteer group in May 2014 out of the ultra-nationalist Patriot of Ukraine gang, and the neo-Nazi Social National Assembly (SNA) group. Both groups engaged in xenophobic and neo-Nazi ideals and physically assaulted migrants, the Roma community and people opposing their views.



As a battalion, the group fought on the front lines against pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, the eastern region of Ukraine. Just before launching the invasion, Putin recognised the independence of two rebel-held regions from Donbas.



A few months after recapturing the strategic port city of Mariupol from the Russian-backed separatists, the unit was officially integrated into the National Guard of Ukraine on November 12, 2014, and exacted high praise from then-President Petro Poroshenko.



"These are our best warriors," he said at an awards ceremony in 2014. "Our best volunteers."



Who founded Azov?

The unit was led by Andriy Biletsky, who served as the the leader of both the Patriot of Ukraine (founded in 2005) and the SNA (founded in 2008).  The SNA is known to have carried out attacks on minority groups in Ukraine.



In 2010, Biletsky said Ukraine's national purpose was to "lead the white races of the world in a final crusade ... against Semite-led Untermenschen [inferior races]".



Biletsky was elected to parliament in 2014. He left Azov as elected officials cannot be in the military or police force. He remained an MP until 2019.



The 42-year-old is nicknamed Bely Vozd – or White Ruler – by his supporters. He established the far-right National Corps party in October 2016, whose core base is veterans of Azov.



Before becoming part of Ukraine's armed forces, who funded Azov?

The unit received backing from Ukraine's interior minister in 2014, as the government had recognised its own military was too weak to fight off the pro-Russian separatists and relied on paramilitary volunteer forces.



These forces were privately funded by oligarchs – the most known being Igor Kolomoisky, an energy magnate billionaire and then-governor of the Dnipropetrovska region.



In addition to Azov, Kolomoisky funded other volunteer battalions such as the Dnipro 1 and Dnipro 2, Aidar and Donbas units.



Azov received early funding and assistance from another oligarch: Serhiy Taruta, the billionaire governor of Donetsk region.



Neo-Nazi ideology

In 2015, Andriy Diachenko, the spokesperson for the regiment at the time said that 10 to 20 percent of Azov's recruits were Nazis.



In January 2018, Azov rolled out its street patrol unit called National Druzhyna to "restore" order in the capital, Kyiv. Instead, the unit carried out pogroms against the Roma community and attacked members of the LGBTQ community.



"Ukraine is the world's only nation to have a neo-Nazi formation in its armed forces," a correspondent for the US-based magazine, the Nation, wrote in 2019.



Human rights violations and war crimes

A 2016 report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHA) has accused the Azov regiment of violating international humanitarian law.



The report detailed incidents over a period from November 2015-February 2016 where Azov had embedded their weapons and forces in used civilian buildings, and displaced residents after looting civilian properties. The report also accused the battalion of raping and torturing detainees in the Donbas region.

Ukrainians are more right wing than Russians.

[Anonymous]

Ukraine is the most openly racist country in Europe. The people fighting off Russians don't want the large scale immigration that Russia has had under Putin. They also are responsible for many war crimes.



Profile: Who are Ukraine's far-right Azov regiment?

The far-right neo-Nazi group has expanded to become part of Ukraine's armed forces, a street militia and a political party.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1 ... v-regiment">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment



Azov is a far-right all-volunteer infantry military unit whose members – estimated at 900 – are ultra-nationalists and accused of harbouring neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideology.



The unit was initially formed as a volunteer group in May 2014 out of the ultra-nationalist Patriot of Ukraine gang, and the neo-Nazi Social National Assembly (SNA) group. Both groups engaged in xenophobic and neo-Nazi ideals and physically assaulted migrants, the Roma community and people opposing their views.



As a battalion, the group fought on the front lines against pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, the eastern region of Ukraine. Just before launching the invasion, Putin recognised the independence of two rebel-held regions from Donbas.



A few months after recapturing the strategic port city of Mariupol from the Russian-backed separatists, the unit was officially integrated into the National Guard of Ukraine on November 12, 2014, and exacted high praise from then-President Petro Poroshenko.



"These are our best warriors," he said at an awards ceremony in 2014. "Our best volunteers."



Who founded Azov?

The unit was led by Andriy Biletsky, who served as the the leader of both the Patriot of Ukraine (founded in 2005) and the SNA (founded in 2008).  The SNA is known to have carried out attacks on minority groups in Ukraine.



In 2010, Biletsky said Ukraine's national purpose was to "lead the white races of the world in a final crusade ... against Semite-led Untermenschen [inferior races]".



Biletsky was elected to parliament in 2014. He left Azov as elected officials cannot be in the military or police force. He remained an MP until 2019.



The 42-year-old is nicknamed Bely Vozd – or White Ruler – by his supporters. He established the far-right National Corps party in October 2016, whose core base is veterans of Azov.



Before becoming part of Ukraine's armed forces, who funded Azov?

The unit received backing from Ukraine's interior minister in 2014, as the government had recognised its own military was too weak to fight off the pro-Russian separatists and relied on paramilitary volunteer forces.



These forces were privately funded by oligarchs – the most known being Igor Kolomoisky, an energy magnate billionaire and then-governor of the Dnipropetrovska region.



In addition to Azov, Kolomoisky funded other volunteer battalions such as the Dnipro 1 and Dnipro 2, Aidar and Donbas units.



Azov received early funding and assistance from another oligarch: Serhiy Taruta, the billionaire governor of Donetsk region.



Neo-Nazi ideology

In 2015, Andriy Diachenko, the spokesperson for the regiment at the time said that 10 to 20 percent of Azov's recruits were Nazis.



In January 2018, Azov rolled out its street patrol unit called National Druzhyna to "restore" order in the capital, Kyiv. Instead, the unit carried out pogroms against the Roma community and attacked members of the LGBTQ community.



"Ukraine is the world's only nation to have a neo-Nazi formation in its armed forces," a correspondent for the US-based magazine, the Nation, wrote in 2019.



Human rights violations and war crimes

A 2016 report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHA) has accused the Azov regiment of violating international humanitarian law.



The report detailed incidents over a period from November 2015-February 2016 where Azov had embedded their weapons and forces in used civilian buildings, and displaced residents after looting civilian properties. The report also accused the battalion of raping and torturing detainees in the Donbas region.

Ukrainians are more right wing than Russians.

Frickin right they are. Putin is a nationalist, but he aint very right wing. All the immigrants that have entered Russia under his watch aint something a right winger would do.

[Gaon]

Ukraine is the most openly racist country in Europe. The people fighting off Russians don't want the large scale immigration that Russia has had under Putin. They also are responsible for many war crimes.



Profile: Who are Ukraine's far-right Azov regiment?

The far-right neo-Nazi group has expanded to become part of Ukraine's armed forces, a street militia and a political party.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1 ... v-regiment">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment



Azov is a far-right all-volunteer infantry military unit whose members – estimated at 900 – are ultra-nationalists and accused of harbouring neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideology.



The unit was initially formed as a volunteer group in May 2014 out of the ultra-nationalist Patriot of Ukraine gang, and the neo-Nazi Social National Assembly (SNA) group. Both groups engaged in xenophobic and neo-Nazi ideals and physically assaulted migrants, the Roma community and people opposing their views.



As a battalion, the group fought on the front lines against pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, the eastern region of Ukraine. Just before launching the invasion, Putin recognised the independence of two rebel-held regions from Donbas.



A few months after recapturing the strategic port city of Mariupol from the Russian-backed separatists, the unit was officially integrated into the National Guard of Ukraine on November 12, 2014, and exacted high praise from then-President Petro Poroshenko.



"These are our best warriors," he said at an awards ceremony in 2014. "Our best volunteers."



Who founded Azov?

The unit was led by Andriy Biletsky, who served as the the leader of both the Patriot of Ukraine (founded in 2005) and the SNA (founded in 2008).  The SNA is known to have carried out attacks on minority groups in Ukraine.



In 2010, Biletsky said Ukraine's national purpose was to "lead the white races of the world in a final crusade ... against Semite-led Untermenschen [inferior races]".



Biletsky was elected to parliament in 2014. He left Azov as elected officials cannot be in the military or police force. He remained an MP until 2019.



The 42-year-old is nicknamed Bely Vozd – or White Ruler – by his supporters. He established the far-right National Corps party in October 2016, whose core base is veterans of Azov.



Before becoming part of Ukraine's armed forces, who funded Azov?

The unit received backing from Ukraine's interior minister in 2014, as the government had recognised its own military was too weak to fight off the pro-Russian separatists and relied on paramilitary volunteer forces.



These forces were privately funded by oligarchs – the most known being Igor Kolomoisky, an energy magnate billionaire and then-governor of the Dnipropetrovska region.



In addition to Azov, Kolomoisky funded other volunteer battalions such as the Dnipro 1 and Dnipro 2, Aidar and Donbas units.



Azov received early funding and assistance from another oligarch: Serhiy Taruta, the billionaire governor of Donetsk region.



Neo-Nazi ideology

In 2015, Andriy Diachenko, the spokesperson for the regiment at the time said that 10 to 20 percent of Azov's recruits were Nazis.



In January 2018, Azov rolled out its street patrol unit called National Druzhyna to "restore" order in the capital, Kyiv. Instead, the unit carried out pogroms against the Roma community and attacked members of the LGBTQ community.



"Ukraine is the world's only nation to have a neo-Nazi formation in its armed forces," a correspondent for the US-based magazine, the Nation, wrote in 2019.



Human rights violations and war crimes

A 2016 report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHA) has accused the Azov regiment of violating international humanitarian law.



The report detailed incidents over a period from November 2015-February 2016 where Azov had embedded their weapons and forces in used civilian buildings, and displaced residents after looting civilian properties. The report also accused the battalion of raping and torturing detainees in the Donbas region.

Ukrainians are more right wing than Russians.

Frickin right they are. Putin is a nationalist, but he aint very right wing. All the immigrants that have entered Russia under his watch aint something a right winger would do.

If Putin is a nationalist, he is a soft nationalist. Giving Islam equal status with the Russian Orthodox Church like he has is the opposite of nationalism.

[Anonymous]

It seems Vladimir Putin is doing the EU and NATO a favour by keeping Ukraine outside those organizations. Could you imagine Ukraine's nazified military on training exercises with the multiracial forces of the US and Britain. That would not go very well.

[Bricktop]

Ukraine can be corrupt.



It can be populated by thousands of Nazis.



Ukraine can be anything it wants to be, just like Canada, Australia and every other sovereign nation.



It still does NOT justify Russia invading it, destroying its buildings and killing its people.



How about recognising the real criminal act in the war, not the failings of the victim.

[Anonymous]

*I have no problem recognizing the real criminal in this. That of course is Washington, DC who encouraged this unnecessary war that Putin did not want. NATO acted as the cheerleader.

[Oliver Clotheshoffe]

They're nazis?



Even if they are then S-O  F-U-C-K-I-N-G  W-H-A-T



It's their country and if they want to be nazis then they can be nazis. As long as they stay within their borders and aren't committing atrocities then it's nobody's business but their own.



If I'm in my house and I feel like stripping down naked, spray painting myself purple, cracking a dozen eggs over my head and dancing the Hoochie Coo all night then that's exactly what I'm going to do. I'm minding my own business and not bothering anybody.



My neighbor may peek in my window and think me some kind of nut case but it does NOT give him the right to invade my home and kill me.



If you're now saying "Oh, it's okay, they're nazis" you'll soon be saying "Oh, it's okay, they're jews... or they're whites... or they're poor..."



Very very dangerous road to start treading down.