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{{See also|Azov Battalion}}

{{See also|Azov Battalion}}

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[[File:Zelensky neo-Nazi award.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Zelensky presents neo-Nazi leader with the Hero of Ukraine award for atrocities committed against ethnic Russians.<ref>https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/nazis-ukrainian-war-russia/</ref>]]

[[File:Zelensky neo-Nazi award.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Zelensky presents neo-Nazi leader with the Hero of Ukraine award for atrocities committed against ethnic Russians.<ref>https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/nazis-ukrainian-war-russia/</ref>]]

[[Oles Buzina]] (also Buzyna), a prominent journalist and author who advocated for unity among Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia and campaigned to outlaw neo-Nazi organizing, was shot and killed near his apartment on April 16, 2015 by state-backed death squads after his name appeared on the [[Myrotvorets]] public blacklist of “enemies of the state”  list.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/pro-russian-journalist-oles-buzina-shot-dead-kiev-masked-gunmen-n342661</ref>  In June 2015, investigators accused Andriy Medvedko and fellow C14 member, Denys Polishchuk, of killing Buzina.<ref>https://reportingradicalism.org/en/dossiers/people/andrii-medvedko-prominent-c14-member-and-former-svoboda-party-official</ref>  During the Maidan coup C14 activists took over Kyiv’s city hall and plastered its walls with neo-Nazi insignia before taking shelter in the Canadian embassy.<ref>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-embassy-used-as-safe-haven-during-ukraine-uprising-investigation-finds-1.3148719</ref>  A March 2018 report by ''[[Reuters]]'' stated that “C14 and Kiev’s city government recently signed an agreement allowing C14 to establish a ‘municipal guard’ to patrol the streets."<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cohen-ukraine-commentary/commentary-ukraines-neo-nazi-problem-idUSKBN1GV2TY</ref>  By offering to carry out acts of violence on behalf of anyone willing to pay, the C14 fostered a cozy relationship with various governing bodies and powerful elites across Ukraine.  Their advertisement on [[Facebook]] reads:<ref>https://khpg.org/en/1520808476</ref>

[[Oles Buzina]] (also Buzyna), a prominent journalist and author who advocated for unity among Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia and campaigned to outlaw neo-Nazi organizing, was shot and killed near his apartment on April 16, 2015 by state-backed death squads after his name appeared on the [[Myrotvorets]] public blacklist of “enemies of the state”  list.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/pro-russian-journalist-oles-buzina-shot-dead-kiev-masked-gunmen-n342661</ref>  In June 2015, investigators accused Andriy Medvedko and fellow C14 member, Denys Polishchuk, of killing Buzina.<ref>https://reportingradicalism.org/en/dossiers/people/andrii-medvedko-prominent-c14-member-and-former-svoboda-party-official</ref>  During the Maidan coup C14 activists took over Kyiv’s city hall and plastered its walls with neo-Nazi insignia before taking shelter in the Canadian embassy.<ref>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-embassy-used-as-safe-haven-during-ukraine-uprising-investigation-finds-1.3148719</ref>  A March 2018 report by ''[[Reuters]]'' stated that “C14 and Kiev’s city government recently signed an agreement allowing C14 to establish a ‘municipal guard’ to patrol the streets."<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cohen-ukraine-commentary/commentary-ukraines-neo-nazi-problem-idUSKBN1GV2TY</ref>  By offering to carry out acts of violence on behalf of anyone willing to pay, the C14 fostered a cozy relationship with various governing bodies and powerful elites across Ukraine.  Their advertisement on [[Facebook]] reads:<ref>https://khpg.org/en/1520808476</ref>

{{quotebox-float|“C14 works for you.  Help us keep afloat, and we will help you.  For regular donors, we are opening a box for wishes.  Which of your enemies would you like to make life difficult for?  We’ll try to do that.”}}

{{quotebox-float|“C14 works for you.  Help us keep afloat, and we will help you.  For regular donors, we are opening a box for wishes.  Which of your enemies would you like to make life difficult for?  We’ll try to do that.”}}