A note about the 'Azov Regiment'

[SunSeeker]

70. I have made no "false claims." Here's pictures from Mariupol. All you had to do was ask.

I did not use the "wrong city," I meant and said Mariupol all along. I just gave you the wrong photo. You could have easily found these photos yourself if you had done a simple Google search.

Here's the 79 year old grandma in Mariupol who was famously trained by the Azov Regiment in February. She was all over the news. Do you think she is a Nazi?





There's more pictures of Azov Regiment training earlier this year in Mariupol at this link:


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10510201/Ukrainian-woman-79-takes-military-training-country-braces-invasion-Russia.html


The Azov Regiment trained civilians in Mariupol (and, yes, in Kyiv) to fight the Russians invaders. Azov-trained civilians and Azov veterans are among the fighters barricaded in the Mariupol steel factory, making a last stand against Russian war criminals. That is a fact. And they are about to be wiped out in Mariupol, while Putin, and some in this shameful thread are calling them Nazis.  

You even parrot another poster's disingenuous claim that the Al Jazeera article I cited on the Azov Regiment's history is Putin propaganda, as if that somehow makes it OK for others in the thread to post purported pictures of current Azov Regiment soldiers holding photoshopped NATO and Nazi flags. You refuse to condemn that photo in post 20 as Russian propaganda or address it in any way. Instead, you and your compatriot deflect by picking a line out of context from the Al Jazeera article that back in 2015, some Azov Battalion members self-identified as Nazis. That is a fact and nobody is denying it. As the article also accurately pointed out, that original far-right neo-Nazi-led Azov Battalion split up, becoming "part of Ukraine’s armed forces, a street militia and a political party." The part that is currently under the command of the Ukraine armed forces is the Azov Regiment. As the article points out, the current Azov Regiment denies they are neo-Nazis. Their former neo-Nazi leader, Biletsky, left the group, and formed a far-right political party with his like-minded followers. He is not in Mariupol.

The Al Jazeera article makes very clear who the current Azov Regiment are:



https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment

As you can see, that is not the same as saying they are Nazis, like Putin, and some folks in this thread, are accusing the Azov Regiment of being. And they are indeed being "accused of harbouring neo-Nazis ideology," as this thread demonstrates, much to Putin's delight.

The Azov Regiment in Mariupol, what is left of them, are under the control of Ukrainian armed forces Commander Serhiy Volyna, of the 36th Ukrainian Marines division. He is not a neo-Nazi. He does not waive the Nazi flag. He is a brave Ukrainian officer. Here he is, today, describing who is in that steel factory with him in Mariupol:

He says it is Ukrainian soldiers (Azov volunteers and Marines), 500 of whom are injured and "rotting" in the tunnels with no medicine, and hundreds of civilian women and children, seeking safety from the Russian bombs.

That is who Putin is calling Nazis, as Commander Volyna says they may be experiencing their last hours on earth.