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In 2010, Biletsky said that the Ukrainian nation's mission is to "lead the white races of the world in a final crusade...against Semite-led Untermenschen (Subhumans)".  Biletsky is also known as ''White Leader'',<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/03/18/inside-azov-neo-nazi-brigade-killing-russian-generals-playing/</ref> and in 2013 he wrote a brochure called ''The Word of the White Leader''.<ref>https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/28512571.html</ref>  Since 2014, the [[BBC]],<ref name="Ukraine vote">{{Cite news |date=24 October 2014 |title=Ukraine vote could push the country into chaos |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29755967 |quote=Andrei Biletsky, a white supremacist commander}}</ref> ''[[The Independent]]''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sommerlad |first1=Joe |title=Who are Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-azov-battalion-mariupol-neo-nazis-b2043022.html |access-date=5 May 2022 |work=The Independent |date=24 March 2022 |quote=It was organised by Andriy Biletsky, a white supermacist former football hooligan}}</ref> and ''The Moscow Times''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Josh |date=20 July 2015 |title=Ukraine Should Beware the Azov Extremists |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2015/07/20/ukraine-should-beware-the-azov-extremists-a48402 |website=The Moscow Times}}</ref> have described Biletsky as a [[white supremacist]].

In 2010, Biletsky said that the Ukrainian nation's mission is to "lead the white races of the world in a final crusade...against Semite-led Untermenschen (Subhumans)".  Biletsky is also known as ''White Leader'',<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/03/18/inside-azov-neo-nazi-brigade-killing-russian-generals-playing/</ref> and in 2013 he wrote a brochure called ''The Word of the White Leader''.<ref>https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/28512571.html</ref>  Since 2014, the [[BBC]],<ref name="Ukraine vote">{{Cite news |date=24 October 2014 |title=Ukraine vote could push the country into chaos |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29755967 |quote=Andrei Biletsky, a white supremacist commander}}</ref> ''[[The Independent]]''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sommerlad |first1=Joe |title=Who are Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-azov-battalion-mariupol-neo-nazis-b2043022.html |access-date=5 May 2022 |work=The Independent |date=24 March 2022 |quote=It was organised by Andriy Biletsky, a white supermacist former football hooligan}}</ref> and ''The Moscow Times''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Josh |date=20 July 2015 |title=Ukraine Should Beware the Azov Extremists |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2015/07/20/ukraine-should-beware-the-azov-extremists-a48402 |website=The Moscow Times}}</ref> have described Biletsky as a [[white supremacist]].

Biletsky was imprisoned for complicity in the group beating of a journalist who only miraculously survived. During the 2014 U.S.-backed [[Euromaidan coup]], members of the Biletsky's Patriot of Ukraine were among the founders of the notorious fascist [[Right Sector]] on November 28, 2013. Biletsky was released from prison in March 2014 and on March 12 became a party leader in special operations for the "Right Sector - East," which included such regions as Poltava, [[Kharkiv]], [[Donetsk]], and [[Luhansk]] oblasts. On May 5, 2014 in Berdyansk, Biletsky became a founder of the Azov Battalion (as a territorial battalion of patrol service), and its first commander.  

Biletsky was imprisoned for complicity in the group beating of a journalist who only miraculously survived. During the 2014 U.S.-backed [[Euromaidan coup]], members of the Biletsky's Patriot of Ukraine were among the founders of the notorious fascist [[Right Sector]] on November 28, 2013. Biletsky was released from prison in March 2014 and on March 12 became a party leader in special operations for the "Right Sector - East," which included such regions as Poltava, [[Kharkiv]], [[Donetsk]], and [[Luhansk]] oblasts. On May 5, 2014 in Berdyansk, Biletsky became a founder of the Azov Battalion (as a territorial battalion of patrol service), and its first commander.  

On December 10, 2014, Biletsky announced that the Patriot of Ukraine suspended its activities as a political organization due to the [[Donbas war]], and would be absorbed primarily into the Azov Battalion.

On December 10, 2014, Biletsky announced that the Patriot of Ukraine suspended its activities as a political organization due to the [[Donbas war]], and would be absorbed primarily into the Azov Battalion.

On July 29, 2022 ''[[Reuters]]'' reported the prisoner-of-war camp at Elenovka was hit by a U.S.-built [[HIMAR]],<ref>https://youtu.be/xOpXJbE-HIc</ref> causing the deaths of 40 prisoners and 13 guards and prison employees.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-40-ukrainian-pows-killed-by-ukrainian-missile-strike-donetsk-prison-2022-07-29/</ref>  At least one hundred other prisoners were injured.  Sources reported that captured Ukrainian prisoners-of-war were giving up much critical information on U.S./Ukraine/NATO operations and illegal weapon's transfers, including arms to [[Kurdish]] [[terrorist]]s in [[Syria]] to be used against [[NATO]] member [[Turkiye]].<ref> https://youtu.be/I9mKoOLSvmc</ref>  Ukraine forces on the battlefield attempting to surrender have been documented to have been executed by Ukrainian commanders.  A bill was introduced into the Ukrainian parliament granting legal authority to Ukrainian commanders to execute Ukrainian soldiers who wanted to surrender.  Morale was reported to have fallen in recent weeks among Azov Battalion detainees at Elenovka as they realized the Kyiv regime was not negotiating their exchange for Russian POWs, and they began giving up more information in exchange for more lenient sentences for [[war crimes]].  The [[Pentagon]] claimed the Ukrainian strike on its own personnel was 'accidental'.<ref>https://en.rua.gr/2022/07/30/the-pentagon-leaked-zelensky-ukrainians-hit-the-prison-with-azov-fighters/</ref><ref>https://socialbites.ca/latest-news/67370.html</ref>  Prominent Ukrainian neo-Nazi Andriy Biletsky vowed revenge against "whoever did this."<ref>https://twitter.com/Levi_godman/status/1553062852159750146</ref>

On July 29, 2022 ''[[Reuters]]'' reported the prisoner-of-war camp at Elenovka was hit by a U.S.-built [[HIMAR]],<ref>https://youtu.be/xOpXJbE-HIc</ref> causing the deaths of 40 prisoners and 13 guards and prison employees.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-40-ukrainian-pows-killed-by-ukrainian-missile-strike-donetsk-prison-2022-07-29/</ref>  At least one hundred other prisoners were injured.  Sources reported that captured Ukrainian prisoners-of-war were giving up much critical information on U.S./Ukraine/NATO operations and illegal weapon's transfers, including arms to [[Kurdish]] [[terrorist]]s in [[Syria]] to be used against [[NATO]] member [[Turkiye]].<ref> https://youtu.be/I9mKoOLSvmc</ref>  Ukraine forces on the battlefield attempting to surrender have been documented to have been executed by Ukrainian commanders.  A bill was introduced into the Ukrainian parliament granting legal authority to Ukrainian commanders to execute Ukrainian soldiers who wanted to surrender.  Morale was reported to have fallen in recent weeks among Azov Battalion detainees at Elenovka as they realized the Kyiv regime was not negotiating their exchange for Russian POWs, and they began giving up more information in exchange for more lenient sentences for [[war crimes]].  The [[Pentagon]] claimed the Ukrainian strike on its own personnel was 'accidental'.<ref>https://en.rua.gr/2022/07/30/the-pentagon-leaked-zelensky-ukrainians-hit-the-prison-with-azov-fighters/</ref><ref>https://socialbites.ca/latest-news/67370.html</ref>  Prominent Ukrainian neo-Nazi Andriy Biletsky vowed revenge against "whoever did this."<ref>https://twitter.com/Levi_godman/status/1553062852159750146</ref>