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{{quotebox-float|"They omit or deny that there is a civil war in Donbas even though the majority of scholars who [have] published or presented concerning this conflict in Western academic venues classify it as a civil war with Russian military intervention. The Western media also omitted that recent ‘unity marches’ in Kharkiv and Kyiv and a staged training of civilians, including a grandmother, were organized and led by the far right, in particular, the [[Azov Battalion|Neo-Nazi Azov [Battalion].]]”<ref>https://twitter.com/I_Katchanovski/status/1490034084600594436</ref>}}
On March 27, 2022, very disturbing videos emerged of mistreatment of Russian POWs by Armed Forces of Ukraine. One video shows Russian soldiers with canvas bags over their heads and then beaten in the face with rifle butts. The prisoners are shot in the kneecaps and genitals, and they are left on the ground to bleed to death. Several vans then arrive at the Ukraine military compound in Kharkiv, and as each POW is removed from the van they are shot in the knees. A second video shows Russian POW's lying face down in a paved courtyard, or compound, and then being shot in the knees from the rear.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/27/zelenskyy-worried-about-western-financial-support-after-video-surfaces-showing-ukraine-military-torturing-russian-pows/</ref>
===Kraken unit===
[[File:Kraken nazis.png|right|350px|thumb|Photo of football hooligans squad of the neo-Nazi [[Kraken unit|Kraken regiment]] of the [[Maidan regime|Ukraine regime forces]]: KCP ([[Kharkiv]]), Bratiya (Kryvbas), Brave Brigade (Dynamo) and Dnipro.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineCrisis2022/comments/y99cg5/photo_of_football_hooligans_squad_of_neonazi/ Photo of Football Hooligans squad of neoNazi Kraken regiment of Ukraine regime forces: KCP (Kharkiv), Bratiya (Kryvbas), Brave Brigade (Dynamo) and Dnipro], October 2022. reddit.</ref>]]
{{See also|Pravy Sektor}}
The Kraken Regiment is a volunteer unit formed on February 24, 2022 by veterans of the Azov [[Battalion]]. The founder is Konstantin Nemichev, a member of the National Corps and combat veteran of the Azov Battalion. The Kraken unit are particularly well known for openly conducting safaris for Russian speaking civilians in the Kharkiv region. The Kraken unit has also been accused of mistreating Russian [[prisoners of war]]. Kraken is not officially part of the [[Armed Forces of Ukraine]].
On June 16, 2022 Russian forces destroyed the headquarters of the neo-Nazi Kraken unit in the Kharkiv region<ref>https://youtu.be/261CQakgvus</ref>
On June 29, 2022 Russian artillery destroyed up to 100 militants of the Nazi Kraken formation and about 10 units of military in the Kharkiv region.
North of Kharkiv, the [[Russian MOD]] reported that the feared Ukrainian neo-Nazi Kraken forces, which function as political commissars on the front, executed 100 members of the Ukrainian 58th motorized infantry brigade who refused to fight.<ref>https://ria.ru/20220819/spetsoperatsiya-1810717127.html</ref>
On May 25, 2023 Kraken units were reported to have been sent as reinforcements to [[NATO]]/Ukrainian incursion into the [[Belgorad]] oblast of Russia.<ref>https://youtu.be/qXr3x9sOMQs</ref>
==History of Kharkov==
