But Azov’s power comes from weapons, not from his literary projects. In 2014, when the Ukrainian army was weak and poorly equipp. Azov volunteers, l by Biletski, fought at the forefront of the battle against. Russian-speak separatists in the east and recaptur the city of Mariupol, where they are now under siege. . Effective, courageous and highly ideological fighters, their efforts in the east earn them nation and the support of a grateful state, which incorporat the Azov movement as an official regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine . In this Azov is believ to have enjoy the support of.
Arsen Avakov a powerful oligarch and
Minister of the Interior of Ukraine between 2014 and 2019. In interviews, both Ukrainian human rights activists and leaders of rival far-right groups express their complaints to me about the unfair advantage that Avakov’s patronage gave the Azov movement in assert its. Dominant role in the right-w Ukrainian sphere. , which includ official functions such as election observers and auxiliary police authoriz by the State . Ukraine is not a Nazi state, but Afghanistan Phone Number List the support of the Ukrainian state for neo-Nazi or Nazi-lean groups – for whatever reasons, valid or not – makes the country an outlier in Europe. There are many far-right groups on the mainland, but only in Ukraine do they have their own tank and artillery units , with state support.
This close and complicat relationship
Detween a Western-back liberal-democratic state and arm advocates of a very different ideology has in the past caus some unease among. Ukraine’s supporters in the West. In recent years, the US. Congress has back and forth on its stance on whether Azov should be prevent from receiv US arms shipments, and Democratic Party lawmakers in 2019 urg the movement’s list. global terrorist AGB Directory organizations. In interviews, Semenyaka complain that this unease was the result of the attention paid to Russian propaganda and insist that US cooperation with Azov would be mutually beneficial. In this sense, the current war has certainly been a welcome relief for Azov.