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Oleksiy Kuzmenko
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Thread. Zelenskiy sends regards to far-right the National Corps party in Ukraine ("nationalist hate group" per @statedept) and the Azov Regiment in a new video acknowledging "defenders of Ukraine on the front lines and in the rear". /1
In a fragment starting at 1:16 Zelenskiy sends regards to various volunteer groups, “patriots”, military units, including the Azov Regiment and far-right the National Corps party /2 Full video posted to Zelenskiy’s Facebook facebook.com/10000721155500…
"I thank everyone from Shyrokyne to Stanytsia Luhanska, every patriot, Kryvbas battalion, Donbas battalion, Aidar, the Azov [Regiment], the National Corps, the National Guard to our airmen, our sailors, our POWs...", Zelenskiy says in the video /END
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Thread. Far-right The National Corps to protest against Poroshenko tomorrow in Kyiv, so they roll out a slick video. “Nationalist hate group” ,according to @StateDept report, the National Corps will hold a rally in front of @TheBankova on April 9. /1
Far-right the National Corps is historically linked to alleged backer of Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s min of Internal Affairs Avakov. Tomorrow’s NC anti-Poroshenko rally adds to the latter’s electoral woes. /2
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Oleksiy Kuzmenko
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Thread. In a new development for mainstream Ukrainian media neo-Nazis in Ukraine are suddenly real and problematic, per @prm_ua video report on the Azov Movement& its leaders. Yet apparently it's ONLY AN ISSUE if said neo-Nazis are opposed to Poroshenko
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Oleksiy Kuzmenko
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Thread! The Azov Regiment (part of Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs) issues a statement explaining how exactly it fits into far-right “the Azov movement” led by head of the National Corps party, the Regiment’s historically first commander Biletsky archive.is/1SD3h:
"Term "the Azov movement" eagerly manipulated by our politicians and media, is actually native to all of the Azov Regiment fighters. It was born out of the name of our Regiment among those who, regardless of when it happened, carried arms in its ranks.
You can't break the Azov into the real and not real, because the Azovites are bound by blood spilled in our battles for Ukraine. In peaceful life, having returned from the war, our fighters don't seize being Azovites, unless they have betrayed their fighting family.
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