Imo, you're more nazi than anything I've seen in Ukraine.
IMO, Zelenskyy is very fortunate to still be alive, let alone, "in charge". If the following is any indication, what an effing rathole of a country. Reminds me of the U.S. gov on January 6 ! Reading this, it is hard to fathom how cynicism of over age 50 Ukrainians coming up under Soviets
and transitioning into this would not have snuffed out all hope in future improvement.
The far-right neo-Nazi group has expanded to be part of Ukraine’s armed forces, a street militia and a political party.
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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.
1 Mar 2022
"As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its sixth day, a Ukrainian far-right military regiment is back in the headlines.
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So what is 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....
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.”...
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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..."
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Kolomoisky serves as the president of one of the main
Jewish organizations in Ukraine and holds joint Israeli citizenship. Yet he also seems to enjoy ...
Zelenskyy is also Jewish, but the Israeli government refuses to pick a side...
Translation: 40 Russian oligarchs with dual Israeli citizenship, incentivized by 15 year Israeli personal tax exemption,
Few details provided on content of either sit-down amid PM's efforts to mediate in Ukraine war; Israeli leader also speaks by phone with Ukraine's Zelensky and France's Macron
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After Bennett's meeting with Scholz, the two agreed their aim was to ... stressing Israel's strong relations with both Russia and Ukraine.
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