Ukraine is not a Nazi state, and this is unequivocal: the Russian casus belli is a lie. Still, there is a risk that the understandable desire of Ukrainian and Western analysts not to fe Russian propaganda ammunition will lead to an excess of political correctness that ultimately does not serve Ukrainian interests. In a recent BBC Radio 4 news digest, the correspondent allud to Putin’s “unsubstantiat claim that the Ukrainian state supports Nazi elements.” This is itself a case of misinformation: it is an observable fact, which the BBC itself has accurately and correctly report in the past , that since 2014 the Ukrainian state has provid funding, weapons and other forms of support to militias. far right, including neo-Nazis. This is not a new or controversial observation.
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Of state-back far-right groups for Harper’s magazine in Ukraine , and they were quite open about their ideology and plans for the future. Certainly some of the best coverage of far-right Ukrainian groups came from Bellingcat, the open-source intelligence website, which is known for its sympathetic attitude toward Russian-deriv propaganda. Bellingcat’s excellent coverage Switzerland Phone Number List of this under-report topic in recent years focus largely on Azov, Ukraine’s most powerful far-right group and the one most favor by state largesse. In recent years, Bellingcat researchers have examin Azov’s attempt to establish contacts with American white nationalists and the funding he receiv from the.
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courses and support for demobiliz veterans ; investigat the neo- the movement and the support given to the Russian neo-Nazi exile group Wotanjugend , an opponent of Putin and a practitioner of a very marginal form of esoteric Nazism , who shares space with Azov in their Kiev headquarters, fights by his side on the front lines and also translat and disseminat a Russian AGB Directory version of the Christchurch shooter’s manifesto (who murder over 50 people in 2019. Unfortunately, Bellingcat’s invaluable coverage of the far-right Ukrainian ecosystem has not been updat since the start of hostilities, despite the fact that the war with Russia mark something of a renaissance for these groups.