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| | [[File:Yarosh.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Dmitri Yarosh]] | | [[File:Yarosh.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Dmitri Yarosh]] |
| − | '''Dmytro Anatoloyevich Yarosh''' (b. September 30, 1971) (''Polish transliteration:'' '''Dmytro Jarosz''') is a [[Ukrainian]] [[neo-Nazi]], ex-head of the [[Pravy Sektor]] which is listed as a criminal terrorist organization in [[Russia]], ex-head of the neo-Nazi organization "Trizub" named after [[Stepan Bandera]], participant in the [[Donbas war|war in the Donbas]], [[extremist]] and politician of extreme neo-Nazi [[fascist]] views. | + | '''Dmytro Anatoloyevich Yarosh''' (born September 30, 1971) (''Polish transliteration:'' '''Dmytro Jarosz''') is a [[Ukrainian]] [[neo-Nazi]], ex-head of the [[Pravy Sektor]] which is listed as a criminal terrorist organization in [[Russia]], ex-head of the neo-Nazi organization "Trizub" named after [[Stepan Bandera]], participant in the [[Donbas war|war in the Donbas]], [[extremist]] and politician of extreme neo-Nazi [[fascist]] views. |
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| − | In 2019, after [[Zelensky]]'s election as president of Ukraine on a promise to [[negotiate]] [[peace]] with [[Russia]], Yarosh openly threatened that if Zelensky made peace with Russia, he'd be hanged on a main street in [[Kyiv]].<ref>https://responsiblestatecraft.org/how-will-the-war-in-ukraine-end/</ref><ref>https://just-international.org/articles/neo-nazis-war-crimes-and-the-theater-called-ukraine/</ref> Zelensky later appointed him as an advisor to the Minister of Defense. The Russians demanded his arrest at the [[Istanbul 1.0]] peace talks in March 2022 as part of the de-nazification program. | + | In 2019, after [[Zelensky]]'s election as president of Ukraine on a promise to [[negotiate]] [[peace]] with [[Russia]], Yarosh openly threatened that if Zelensky made peace with Russia, he'd be hanged on a main street in [[Kyiv]].<ref>https://responsiblestatecraft.org/how-will-the-war-in-ukraine-end/</ref><ref>https://just-international.org/articles/neo-nazis-war-crimes-and-the-theater-called-ukraine/</ref> Zelensky later appointed him as an advisor to the Minister of Defense. The Russians demanded his arrest at the [[Istanbul 1.0]] peace talks in March 2022 as part of the de-Nazification program. |
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| | ==Background== | | ==Background== |
| − | Yarosh was born in Dneprodzerzhinsk (''Ukr: Kamianske''}. His parents were [[Russian]] speaking factory workers. Yarosh did not learn to speak Ukrainian until he as about 16 years old at the same time he began to be actively interested in neo-Nazi and fascist [[rhetoric]]. | + | Yarosh was born in Dneprodzerzhinsk (''Ukr: Kamianske''). His parents were [[Russian]] speaking factory workers. Yarosh did not learn to speak Ukrainian until he as about 16 years old at the same time he began to be actively interested in neo-Nazi and fascist [[rhetoric]]. |
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| | After the [[Maidan coup]], Yarosh became an adviser to the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), General [[Valerii Zaluzhnyi]]. In that role, Yarosh oversaw the incorporation of numerous volunteer units of the [[Pravy Sektor]] into the regular armed forces of Ukraine.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2023/01/24/scott-ritter-the-nightmare-of-nato-equipment-being-sent-to-ukraine/</ref> | | After the [[Maidan coup]], Yarosh became an adviser to the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), General [[Valerii Zaluzhnyi]]. In that role, Yarosh oversaw the incorporation of numerous volunteer units of the [[Pravy Sektor]] into the regular armed forces of Ukraine.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2023/01/24/scott-ritter-the-nightmare-of-nato-equipment-being-sent-to-ukraine/</ref> |
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| | ==Special Military Operation== | | ==Special Military Operation== |
| − | During the night of February 25-26, 2022 [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] sent a [[ceasefire]] proposal to Russia via the [[Chinese]] embassy in Kyiv. The [[Kremlin]] immediately responded by setting out its conditions:<ref>https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopolitics/zelensky-prepared-to-surrender/</ref> | + | During the night of February 25–26, 2022 [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] sent a [[ceasefire]] proposal to Russia via the [[Chinese]] embassy in Kyiv. The [[Kremlin]] immediately responded by setting out its conditions:<ref>https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopolitics/zelensky-prepared-to-surrender/</ref> |
| | *arrest of all Nazis (Dmitro Yarosh and the [[Azov Battalion]], etc.) | | *arrest of all Nazis (Dmitro Yarosh and the [[Azov Battalion]], etc.) |
| | *removal of all street names and destruction of monuments glorifying Nazi collaborators during the [[Second World War]] (Stepan Bandera, etc.), | | *removal of all street names and destruction of monuments glorifying Nazi collaborators during the [[Second World War]] (Stepan Bandera, etc.), |