🧵The 3rd Assault Brigade in the 🇺🇦Ground Forces doesn't hide that Azov is a hardcore neo-Nazi movement. There are several units in its 1st Assault Battalion. Let's look at the 4th Assault Company, which follows <50 soldiers on IG. They are hidden, but I found almost half of them
We might as well start with "ranger_88_" (88 meaning HH, "Heil Hitler") whose Instagram story was shared by the official "assaultcompany4" yesterday. Here he is at the October 14, 2021 "White Lives Matter" march in Kyiv.
This guy ("skajenuy_pes") has the word "Psycho" tattooed on his forehead, and there is a photo of him on Instagram making a Nazi salute. He is also a fan of Nazi German band Stahlgewitter and wears a "Defend Dharma" swastika patch.
"Kylereese.13" reps the Hitler-worshipping Wotanjugend
The most recent post on the page of "pavelshturma" is a picture of him wearing a Nazi officer's cap
"14litva88" is another account that the username speaks for itself (reference to Nazi "14 words," and "Heil Hitler")
"Tak.nada_" is a football hooligan from Vinnytsia, affiliated with "Sportowia" ultras, which does not shy away from being Nazis (e.g. 14-88 references)
The 4th Assault Company is apparently linked to the special unit "Hatred" affiliated with openly neo-Nazi "Nord Storm," an Azov-affiliated group from Kharkiv. It appears that "Hatred" fighters may be part of the 4th Assault Company. More about them...
According to the Instagram bio of "Artem_Ahnenerbe," he's a combatant of "Nord Storm Group." He is also a member of Azov street gang Centuria, and covered in Nazi tattoos.
".22" also has Nazi tattoos & shared a video of a knife fight apparently sponsored by Wotanjugend and Misanthropic Division (another proudly neo-Nazi group affiliated with Azov). I recently posted about his friend ("the_same_p.s."): Lost.world
"x_turikkkk_x" is apparently another straight-edge Nazi, who is friends with "" and fond of Azov's Nazi symbol abwehr.ss
“Oladushek__47” is another Svastone and Nord Division fan who has participated in 3rd Assault Brigade forums to advertise their unit
For those familiar with M-TAC, they once reposted "sever___a" wearing a patch of the crypto-Nazi "North Side Group" (which uses abbreviation "NS" and not "NSG" because "National Socialism")
There are a few more but you get the idea. For example here is another Nord Storm guy who posted a picture with Petro Gorbatenko AKA "Rollo," commander of the 1st assault battalion, who formerly led the Azov street gang Centuria in Kyiv, and got on CNN:
Of course, it's not really necessary to dig through all of these accounts to see that the 4th Assault Company is openly neo-Nazi. They even posted a video of someone wearing a patch of the extremely neo-Nazi "Misanthropic Division"
PS. I forgot to add “more about them…” (neo-Nazi “Hatred” unit) — to be continued…
P.P.S. Earlier I said "another straight edge Nazi" because I deleted the first one, since the 4th Assault Company doesn't actually follow him on Instagram. But today the unit reposted another "ranger_88_" IG story which further confirms that "x_shevasik_x" is one of them. (TBC?)
Ugh wait one more that I don't want to miss: another Nord Storm guy, "von_recht," whose photo with a Waffen-SS Galicia Division patch was reposted by major (not-so-crypto Nazi) 🇺🇦 brand M-TAC on Instagam today. He's also followed by 4th Assault Company. /END (for real this time)
🧵 about leader of aforementioned "Hatred" unit which might be part of the 4th Assault Company
🧵Thread of threads about the Azov movement's 3rd Assault Brigade, one of the most elite military units in Ukraine, that now spearheads the 3rd Army Corps
Chris Alexander, 🇨🇦 politician who smeared @davidpugliese as a Russian/KGB agent, is a friend of the "Bandera Lobby," living members of which helped to generate a similar smear campaign against Ted Kennedy being a Soviet agent. In 2017, Alexander touted one (1) endorsement for his bid to lead the Conservatives: Yuri Shymko, former MP and then-president of the @ICSUkraine, international coordinating body of OUN-B "facade structures." Below you can see them at a Banderite cultural center in Etobicoke, with Stepan Bandera and other OUN portraits just out of frame. One of the @ICSUkraine members is the "Center for Study of the Liberation Movement" on Stepan Bandera street in Lviv, via which the OUN-B has infiltrated @Uinp_gov_ua and archives of the Security Service of Ukraine, successor of the KGB in Ukraine--said to be the source of Alexander's alleged documents on Pugliese. I haven't seen any signs that the Canadian Banderites saw this hatchet job coming, but it would make sense if the "Bandera Lobby" had a role in this. Alexander's pitch to them in 2017: "If you help me become Conservative leader and prime minister of Canada, we will be driving this agenda forward together every day."
Last year, as the Kyiv Post's "character assassination" expert wrote that "David Pugliese has come to the attention of officials in Kyiv," the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine labeled him an anti-Ukrainian propagandist. This year, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) invited Pugliese nemesis(?) Lubomyr Luciuk from Canada to lecture students at the National Academy of SBU. Luciuk, notorious defender of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators, might not be a sworn OUN-B member, but he is definitely a "Banderite." Meanwhile, a full-blown OUN-B member (Andriy Kohut) serves as director of the SBU archives in Ukraine. x.com/nsanzo/status/…
In December 2022, Chris Alexander made the keynote speech at an awards ceremony organized by Canadians from the Banderite-dominated BCU Financial Group in Toronto, which has supported the production of far-right literature in Ukraine. As a friend of @ICSUkraine, he probably realized that he was addressing members of the international OUN-B network. "It is so fantastic to see so many [Ukrainian community] leaders in this room tonight, who are connected to leaders across Canada, across North America, around the world, and above all, back home in Kyiv." That awards ceremony honored Alik Gomelsky, token Jewish ally of the Canadian Banderites, according to whom "Bandera had nothing against Jews ... So propaganda just brainwashed this people." Toward the end of his speech, Alexander declared, "We should all be doing what President Zelensky asks of us!" And what about the SBU, in order to handle a pesky mainstream journalist in Ottawa? "Get them out of here," he said about alleged Russian intelligence agents, "still sitting in Ottawa, in Toronto, in Canadian missions ... And send the gray zone illegal networks that they support, that they water and nurture, send them packing as well!"
There are a lot of disturbing videos on that Telegram channel (~264k subscribers) including the Christchurch massacre ("full video in good quality"). On Instagram, where they have 600k followers, the "Ragnarock" brand/group has indicated that it's connected to AZOV & @DI_Ukraine
The admin of "Ragnarock" created a personal Instagram account where he's uploaded clips of "my war." In these videos of his, we see someone with an Azov patch, and a fighter from Azov's unit in 🇺🇦 Special Operation Forces that created the 3rd Assault Brigade (now touring Europe)
Jr. Sgt. Volodymyr Vernyhora is sitting on the left, appears to have a patch from the Azov Brigade's Mykola Stsiborskyi school (named for fascist OUN ideologue who "envisioned the state as a 'natiocracy,' an ethnically defined totalitarianism"-@parudling)
Lt. Arseniy Fedosiuk has been photographed with people making Nazi salutes. His laptop has a sticker of the hardcore neo-Nazi paramilitary group ("Patriot of Ukraine") that spawned Azov. He followed an overtly neo-Nazi VK account "12 years not a slave" (referring to 1933-45)
Part 3 🧵— Some have said Azov can't be neo-Nazi, because one of its most famous fighters is of "Jewish origin." After losing a leg in Azovstal and being freed in a prisoner exchange, Ruslan "David" Serbov visited Israel for rehabilitation, which he used to promote 🇺🇦 Nazi brands
"David" was among the Azov fighters flown to Mariupol by 🇺🇦 military intelligence after 🇷🇺 invaded. Here he is in
Azovstal with Oleksandr Kravtsov, the Hitler-tattooed commander of the "Ведмеді SS," an openly neo-Nazi squad that fought with Azov Regiment.
Azov's "myth-busting" website () says that "David" went to Israel in November 2022. By February 2023 he visited the Dead Sea, wearing a hoodie that says "NS," which is a double entendre: "National Socialist" and "North Side," the name of this neo-Nazi brand azovcontrafake.com