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The '''Azov Battalion''' began as a volunteer formation in May 2014 shortly after the [[Maidan coup]], and in late 2014 was brought within the [[Ukrainian]] National Guard by the Maidan regime, and in 2015 became a regiment.  From the outset it aroused considerable attention, including abroad, due to the pronounced [[neo-Nazi]] views of its leaders and members.  According to [[NBC News]] the Azov Battalion was “founded by an avowed [[white supremacist]] who claimed Ukraine’s national purpose was to rid the country of [[Jews]] and other inferior races.”<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ukraine-has-nazi-problem-vladimir-putin-s-denazification-claim-war-ncna1290946</ref>  ''[[The Guardian]]''  reported in 2015, "while the Azov and other volunteer battalions might be Ukraine's most potent and reliable force on the battlefield against the [Donbas] separatists, they also pose the most serious threat to the Ukrainian government, and perhaps even the state."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis</ref>  On February 24, 2022 [[President Vladimir Putin]] of Russia announced [[Operation Denazification]] to clean out the fascist battalions which have waged war on the civilians of the [[Donbas]] republics since 2014.<ref>http://www.indiandefencereview.com/what-forced-a-russian-response-in-ukraine/</ref>

The '''Azov Battalion''' began as a volunteer formation in May 2014 shortly after the [[Maidan coup]], and in late 2014 was brought within the [[Ukrainian]] National Guard by the Maidan regime, and in 2015 became a regiment.  From the outset it aroused considerable attention, including abroad, due to the pronounced [[neo-Nazi]] views of its leaders and members.  According to [[NBC News]] the Azov Battalion was “founded by an avowed [[white supremacist]] who claimed Ukraine’s national purpose was to rid the country of [[Jews]] and other inferior races.”<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ukraine-has-nazi-problem-vladimir-putin-s-denazification-claim-war-ncna1290946</ref>  ''[[The Guardian]]''  reported in 2015, "while the Azov and other volunteer battalions might be Ukraine's most potent and reliable force on the battlefield against the [Donbas] separatists, they also pose the most serious threat to the Ukrainian government, and perhaps even the state."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis</ref>  On February 24, 2022 [[President Vladimir Putin]] of Russia announced [[Operation Denazification]] to clean out the fascist battalions which have waged war on the civilians of the [[Donbas]] republics since 2014.<ref>http://www.indiandefencereview.com/what-forced-a-russian-response-in-ukraine/</ref>

[[File:Azov Tomorrow All of Europe.jpg|left|350px|thumb|"Reconquista: Today Ukraine Tomorrow Rus' and the Whole Europe" (original in English) the theme at the 2016 Kyiv party conference of the U.S.-backed Ukrainian Nazi organization.<ref>https://linksunten.archive.indymedia.org/node/194620/index.html</ref>]]

[[File:Azov Tomorrow All of Europe.jpg|left|350px|thumb|"Reconquista: Today Ukraine Tomorrow Rus' and the Whole Europe" (original in English) the theme at the 2016 Kyiv party conference of the U.S.-backed Ukrainian Nazi organization.<ref>https://linksunten.archive.indymedia.org/node/194620/index.html</ref>]]

Real concern arose at the parliamentary elections in October 2014, with a number of leaders of volunteer battalions, including Andriy Biletsky and Ihor Mosiychuk from the Azov Battalion standing for election.  After months of war against the [[Donetsk]] and [[Luhansk]] independent republics, any person seen as a Ukrainian military hero was effectively guaranteed a seat in parliament.  This was the case with both Mosiychuk and Biletsky.  Mosiychuk’s parliamentary career has been filled with scandal, and he is currently facing criminal charges.  Biletsky has taken a lower rofile, and was recently on record trying to deny – with zero credibility - that he had once called for a crusade by the white race against Semitic subhumans.  

Real concern arose at the parliamentary elections in October 2014, with a number of leaders of volunteer battalions, including Andriy Biletsky and Ihor Mosiychuk from the Azov Battalion standing for election.  After months of war against the [[Donetsk]] and [[Luhansk]] independent republics, any person seen as a Ukrainian military hero was effectively guaranteed a seat in parliament.  This was the case with both Mosiychuk and Biletsky.  Mosiychuk’s parliamentary career has been filled with scandal, and he is currently facing criminal charges.  Biletsky has taken a lower rofile, and was recently on record trying to deny – with zero credibility - that he had once called for a crusade by the white race against Semitic subhumans, echoing the words of [[Heinrich Himmler]],

{{quotebox-float|"As long as there have been men on the earth, the struggle between man and the subhuman will be the historic rule; the Jewish-led struggle against the mankind, as far back as we can look, is part of  the natural course of life on our planet. One can be convinced with full certainty that this struggle for life and death is just as much a law of nature as is the struggle of an infection to corrupt a healthy body."<ref>http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/deruntermensch.html</ref>}}

Given the alleged collaboration in Bila Tskerkva, it is perhaps of relevance that Vadim Troyan, Deputy Commander of Azov and, like Biletsky, a former member of the neo-Nazi ‘Patriot of Ukraine’, was appointed Head of the Kyiv Regional Police in November 2014.  

Given the alleged collaboration in Bila Tskerkva, it is perhaps of relevance that Vadim Troyan, Deputy Commander of Azov and, like Biletsky, a former member of the neo-Nazi ‘Patriot of Ukraine’, was appointed Head of the Kyiv Regional Police in November 2014.