#Azov Regiment continues to be absurdly accused of being "neo-nazi/extremists/far-right".
Journalists in many Western Media do not dig deep enough to understand the context & use myths about Azov without the attempt of fact-checking.
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Journalists in many Western Media do not dig deep enough to understand the context & use myths about Azov without the attempt of fact-checking.
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Biletsky isn't a leader of #Azov. He neither commands it nor influences commanders.
He has no formal relation to the regiment, which is part of the #UA National Guard.
Biletsky is the leader of the party "National corpus" but commanded Azov for only several months in 2014.
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He has no formal relation to the regiment, which is part of the #UA National Guard.
Biletsky is the leader of the party "National corpus" but commanded Azov for only several months in 2014.
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No, #Azov isn't a military wing of the party "National corpus".
Azov was founded by Biletsky, and he has been benefiting from its image since then. There are personal links between former and current soldiers of Azov, but that doesn’t mean Azov is commanded from outside.
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Azov was founded by Biletsky, and he has been benefiting from its image since then. There are personal links between former and current soldiers of Azov, but that doesn’t mean Azov is commanded from outside.
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The current #Azov Regiment is a unit of other people than in 2014. If some soldiers back in 2014 had far-right views, they already left the unit.
Btw, soldiers and guards of #Ukraine cannot be members of any political party.
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Btw, soldiers and guards of #Ukraine cannot be members of any political party.
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#Azov Regiment doesn't conduct any political activity.
They kept silent about military issues and were not public until the full encirclement of #Azovstal.
In their videos, they showed the situation in #Mariupol, cause there is no other source of info, no media.
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They kept silent about military issues and were not public until the full encirclement of #Azovstal.
In their videos, they showed the situation in #Mariupol, cause there is no other source of info, no media.
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#Azov doesn’t make any political statements. They asked only about evacuation for civilians and extraction for soldiers.
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Palamar, the #Azov deputy commander, said accusations of #Nazism among the #Azov are #Russian propaganda.
He claims the only ideology of the current regiment is #Ukrainian patriotism.
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He claims the only ideology of the current regiment is #Ukrainian patriotism.
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Greeks, Crimean Tatars, Jews, Moldavians, Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrainians serve in the regiment together, he claimed, saying that the soldiers serving in the #Azov Regiment have different religions and use different languages.
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"Everything else is a personal matter. Any kind of harassment or restrictions are not tolerated",- Palamar said.
He also added: "But it is important to mention that we hate #Nazism and #Communism."
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He also added: "But it is important to mention that we hate #Nazism and #Communism."
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A good article to read: english.nv.ua/nation/the-azo…
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