In 2019 Kyiv announced the neo-Nazi unit would be monitoring the polls in the presidential election.Īzov’s three annual international conferences, Intermarium, held in Kyiv from 2016, were attended not only by several far-right figures from across central and eastern Europe, but by military attaches from eastern European embassies, including Poland and Hungary. In January 2018, Azov rolled out its National Druzhina street patrol unit, quickly distinguishing itself by carrying out pogroms against Roma and LGBT organisations, and storming a municipal council. Yet according to The Nation he was also deputy of the department running US-trained law enforcement in the entire nation. In 2014, when Troyan was being considered for police chief of Kiev, Ukrainian Jewish leaders were appalled by his neo-Nazi background. In 2019, the deputy Minister of the Interior – who controls the National Police – was Vadim Troyan, a veteran of Azov and of the far-right grouping Patriot of Ukraine. ‘Azov acquired control of a large property, just off Independence Square, from the Ministry of Defence, and turned the building, renamed Cossack House, into its Kyiv headquarters and recruiting centre … It’s an impressive setup with state funding they provide classrooms for the educational lectures and is the home to Azov’s literary salon and publishing house Plomin, where glamorous young hipster intellectuals busy themselves with organising right-wing seminars and book translations, beneath glossy posters of fascist luminaries such as Yukio Mishima, Corneliu Codreanu, and Julius Evola.’ In 2017 Der Spiegel reported the battalion was 2,500 strong.
Alongside that, similar strongholds were developed in the police and the judiciary, directly funded by the USA (which resumed funding in 2015 after briefly ceasing because of its Nazi identity). One of the West’s strategies was to use right-wing political groups to build opposition to Moscow, hence the rise of Azov, a neo-Nazi military group commanded by the far-right extremist Andriy Biletsky – until his election to the legislature in 2016 – with the extraordinary outcome that it became a formal Special Operations Battalion in the Ukrainian armed forces. as promising ‘the British military is ready to involve representatives of the NGU in the training activities being conducted today for units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to develop their combat capabilities.’ This included the Azov Battalion, deemed the only force up to the job.ĭeclassified revealed that the National Guard of Ukraine (NGU) report quotes the Lt. The National Guard of Ukraine was formed in 2014 to incorporate an array of paramilitary and volunteer battalions which were fighting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Only imagine: a literal “land of opportunity”.’ Michael Colborne, Of impunity their friends in other countries could ‘The Azov movement is able to operate with a level
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The second part of Glyn Secker’s historical and political analysis of the drivers of the war in Ukraine, Russian imperialism and neo-fascism in Europe
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