The Vice: Group with neo-Nazi ties still fighting on the frontlines of Ukraine war, 2018

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But according to Oleksandr Turchynov, who heads one of the highest national security agency’s in the country and was briefly President of Ukraine on an emergency basis in 2014, volunteers no longer fight.

“There is a volunteer movement that works to help the army,” said Turchynov in an interview with VICE News in the capital Kyiv. “There are small groups that, let’s say, that didn’t go into the Armed Forces, but their role is exclusively assistance.
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Though neo-Nazis are alleged to be fighting with Right Sector, VICE News did not encounter any among this particular unit*. Ultranationalism and a profound sense of duty seemed to drive all of the volunteers on the frontline.

The emblematic red and black Right Sector flags are adorned all over the compound, along with a tongue and cheek sign at the entrance of the Right Sector base that says, roughly “we’re not here”—a nod to the unit’s murky status within the conflict. And the leaders of the unit operate outside of the formal military command structure.
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*Did the the author of this article see the footage he himself filmed?🛑💯🧠🧠🧠 He didn't see any nazis?! 🤣 The Das Reich insignias, the "blood and soil", yeah sure there was a buddist swastika for some inexplicable reason next to the 2nd Waffen SS Panzer Division insignia...

I'm sure the guys from the Right Sector are all buddists, like, somewhere deep inside them.

Berliner Zeitung: Does the Ukrainian army chief wear a swastika on his armband? 2022

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The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Valeriy Zalushnyi, publishes a photo that apparently shows a swastika. Or not? The reactions are different.

Valeriy Zalushnyi accompanied his clear declaration of war on Russia with an authentic photo of himself in uniform and a protective vest. On his right hand he wears a bracelet with some kind of charms ... a swastika appears on one of the charms.

...“Ukrainian military not wearing Nazi symbols? Impossible,” wrote one user in the most liked comment on the topic.

When asked by the Berliner Zeitung, the German Eastern Europe expert Reinhard Lauterbach, who among other things deals with Ukrainian politics and society, does not want to decide whether the symbol on Zalushny's bracelet can be classified as a swastika or not.

"Some refer to Scandinavian or Nordic symbolism, others to the fact that it is an ancient Indian symbol of good luck - we've heard it dozens of times," says Lauterbach.

"But there are symbols that have historically been damned, and the swastika, the SS runes and others are undoubtedly among them, no matter what any experts in occult science might think up."

"And that doesn't surprise me. It has been known since the appearance of the 'Azov' and less so 'Ajdar' battalions that there are Nazis in the Ukraine – and especially in its 'enforcement apparatuses' ”**, says Reinhard Lauterbach.

The expert complains that the Ukrainians have been trivializing their own problematic legacy surrounding Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera and fascism for decades, which is nothing new.

"This serves precisely to break down these symbolic barriers surrounding fascism."

to be continued...

BBC: Euro 2012 should not have been awarded to Poland and Ukraine because of entrenched racism and violence, 2012

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Euro 2012 should not have been awarded to Poland and Ukraine because of entrenched racism and violence, Sol Campbell has told the BBC's Panorama.

The former England captain's advice to fans is to "stay home, watch it on TV... don't even risk it."

Uefa, European football's governing body, said awarding the tournament to the two nations was an opportunity to tackle social challenges like racism.

Panorama spent a month filming at matches in both the joint host nations and witnessed Nazi salutes from the terraces, black players being taunted with monkey chants, rampant anti-Semitism and a vicious assault on a group of Asian students.

▫️ BBC: Fascist salute was a gesture I would see at every Ukrainian game, 2012
▫️ OdaTV: Azov's commander was a leader of neo-nazi FC fans, 2022

P.S. Mind you, football fans were the backbone for the new Ukrainian army in 2014 when the Civil War started.

Časopis argument (Czech Republic): The ultra-nationalist Ukrainian regime, 2022

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Awarding the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought: "the brave Ukrainian people represented by Volodymyr Zelensky" is like a punch in the face...

It is crazy that although today the Ukrainian liberals are in fierce opposition* to Zelensky, our progressives and all Western and EU liberals support the ultra-nationalist Ukrainian regime instead.
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remember the year 2015, when the parliament voted on a special status for Donetsk and Lugansk (as required by the Minsk I), while a supporter of the Ukrainian fascist party Svoboda tossed a grenade between policemen – the result was four dead and dozens injured as a result.
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After the Maidan, democracy did not become stronger, but the ultra-right and the oligarchy did.
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In Ukraine we see an absurd mixture of ultra-nationalism, neoliberalism and Atlanticism as a coalition of pro-European attitudes.

*There is no opposition:
The Guardian:Ukraine bans 11 political parties 2022

Continuation of "A Ukrainian nazi World Tour":

But the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), not like Harvard, has abruptly scrapped his photo exhibition, Why? Well, simple really... Dmytro Kozatsky is a nazi. His social media posts include hate symbols like swastikas and 14/88.

▫️The Press United: Spanish college scraps exhibition of photos by Ukrainian Azov fighter, 2022

▫️Hyper Allergic: Ukrainian Photographer’s Show Canceled Over Neo-Nazism Accusations, 2022

▫️The Polytechnic University of Catalonia: Clarifying note regarding the exhibition at the Ferraté Library, 2022

quoting The Polytechnic University of Catalonia:

“Regarding the information revealed about the author of the exhibition at the Ferraté Library, we inform that the artwork has been removed and that the University wasn’t aware of the ideology of the author. The UPC radically rejects Nazism and regrets the situation created,”

the University said in a statement.

FoxNews: Actual historical nazis are made national icons in Ukraine, while incorporating contemporary nazis into the Ukrainian state, 2022

The classic Nazis are officially present in the state structures of Ukraine, and cooperating with them in order to defeat Putin is absurd, at least as much as supporting the Islamic State in Syria, the well-known British journalist Maajid Nawaz told Fox News.

The journalist drew attention to the fact that the President of Ukraine banned all opposition parties, but did not ban the Nazis. In the past, Nawaz has loudly criticized Putin's policies in the Middle East. However, when it comes to Ukraine, he explains that the Western public is being misled.

Stern: Neo-Nazis "are part of the chain of Ukrainian defense", 2015

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The Ukrainian ambassador [Andrey Melnik, a well-known nazi apologist] played this down: "These associations are controlled and coordinated by Kyiv." Melnyk didn't care how crazy this was. When Jauch repeatedly asked whether he was sure that the right-wingers in Ukraine were fighting Russia, Melnyk left him cold.

His simple argument: The neo-Nazis "are part of the chain of defense" because without them the defense against Russia would have been much more difficult, he explained. This topic was not elaborated on, but, like the accusation that tanks and weapons could be bought on the market in Ukraine, left incomprehension.

to be continued with video of the scandal...

On February 15, Ambassador Vladimir Grinin took part in the ARD program "Günther Jauch". Other guests were the chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the Bundestag, Norbert Roentgen, and the new Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Andrij Melnik. The group of representatives discussed the current situation in the Ukraine crisis.

Andrij Melnik, being a well known nazi apologist, has stated that Ukrainian nazis from The Azov regiment and The Right Sector are being controlled by the Kiev general staff, are coordinated by the military and there is really nothing to fear.

It was the year 2015 (first year of the Ukraine Civil War), 7 years before the Russo-Ukrainian war of 2022. No one gave a damn about Melnik's words. No one cared that nazis are being used against Ukraine population in Donbass. What could go wrong? I mean, Donbass wouldn't mind, right?

SkyNews: Ukraine hide tanks amongst resident buildings, 2023

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Inside the city, we saw Ukrainian forces laying traps and bringing in reinforcements.

Lines of Soviet-era tanks and armoured vehicles are concealed amongst the buildings.
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The video clearly shows those are civilian, resident buildings.