tinydancer
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All the while Kiev has not a problem using neo nazis. This love affair of western Ukraine and the Nazis is deplorable.
I never thought I would witness the day that my Prime Minister would back neo nazis.
"Ukraine’s government is unrepentant about using the neo-Nazis.
“The most important thing is their spirit and their desire to make Ukraine free and independent,” said Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Arsen Avakov, the interior minister.
“A person who takes a weapon in his hands and goes to defend his motherland is a hero. And his political views are his own affair.”
Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russian and Ukrainian security affairs at New York University, fears battalions like Azov are becoming “magnets to attract violent fringe elements from across Ukraine and beyond”. “The danger is that this is part of the building up of a toxic legacy for when the war ends,” he said."
Ukraine crisis the neo-Nazi brigade fighting pro-Russian separatists - Telegraph
I never thought I would witness the day that my Prime Minister would back neo nazis.
"Ukraine’s government is unrepentant about using the neo-Nazis.
“The most important thing is their spirit and their desire to make Ukraine free and independent,” said Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Arsen Avakov, the interior minister.
“A person who takes a weapon in his hands and goes to defend his motherland is a hero. And his political views are his own affair.”
Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russian and Ukrainian security affairs at New York University, fears battalions like Azov are becoming “magnets to attract violent fringe elements from across Ukraine and beyond”. “The danger is that this is part of the building up of a toxic legacy for when the war ends,” he said."
Ukraine crisis the neo-Nazi brigade fighting pro-Russian separatists - Telegraph