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[[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 [[Belgorod]] oblast of the [[Russian Federation]].<ref>https://youtu.be/qXr3x9sOMQs</ref>