According to Biddle, the Azov regiment - which functions as an armed wing of the broader Ukrainian white nationalist Azov movement - is classified as a "Tier 1" dangerous organization under FB policy, alongside the likes of ISIS and the KKK. It began as a volunteer anti-Russia militia before officially joining the Ukrainian National Guard in 2014, and is known for its hardcore ultranationalist views and neo-Nazi ideology.I appreciate the effort. I will counter with the 2019 Presidential election that Zelensky won in which a svoboda lead coalition candidate they picked only garnered 1.6 % of the vote.
In the same year's parliamentary election other parties joined svoboda to form a unified party in which they only managed to garner 2.15% of the vote. I even remember Zelensky boasting to President Trump at the time that they just won both the Presidency and the parliament with no sign of svoboda gaining any controlling influence over Ukraine's national government affairs.
I'm still not seeing a svoboda controlled national Ukrainian government under any name that you claim to believe.
Putin is out to kill off all the Ukraine nationalists. That's what he's calling Nazis. Some here have swallowed his propaganda all the way down. He has brought in Chechen loyalist militias to hunt down and kill these people who love their country who are not Nazis at all. Talk about genocide.
So now the president of Ukraine, and everyone that voted him in are Nazis? Sure.... drink that Russian kool-aid.
Kiev is a relic spelling based on the Russian pronunciation of Ки́їв.
Even though both Russia and Ukraine use the Cyrillic alphabet, they are two different languages and there are differences in the alphabet itself.
Kyiv was officially adopted was the preferred western spelling in 1995 by the Ukrainian parliament, but was not pushed for until the uprising of Maidan Square in 2015 when the Russian supported government was toppled. Using Kyiv was a sign defiance during that uprising and continued since them.
Ukraine had been under Russian control since 1921.
After the Russian revolution and the fall of the Czar in 1917, Ukraine declared itself a free republic only to be subdued by the Russians/Soviets in 1921, until the fall of the Soviet Union In 1991, when it became it‘s own republic, then Russian’s have wanted it back since then.
Sorry for the long winded explanation, but it is a complicated story that my family had endured.
Eastern Europe is weird man.Now they are fighting for the same thing. Jew and neo Nazis found a common enemy. At least I hope so.
Have cousins there, one is a journalist who has has been very critical of Russia. His family has not heard from him in the last 24 hours.Thanks for that post. Very informative. Do you still have family over in Ukraine?
I’m sorry to hear that. I hope your cousin is ok.Have cousins there, one is a journalist who has has been very critical of Russia. His family has not heard from him in the last 24 hours.
I’m sorry to hear that. I hope your cousin is ok.
I have very little faith in the US media. Hopefully we are getting unbiased news here.
Yes ignore the big new outlets, all they are doing mostly is fishing twitter for stuff, things you can do yourself...The best you can do is try to scrap through tons of various reports/live coverage, and various international forums.
It's a war, there's going to be confusion and chaos. Also heaps of propaganda flying from both sides.
Looks that way.....and if they are effective may turn the Russian public against Putin, and how bad do the Russians being sent in really want to be there. Ukraines that want to be free, that want to be nazi's, that want Russia help, that don't want Russia's help.....what a mess. Another good reason to stay out of messes, and stop helping to make them.Ukraine is going to have to fight in the same manner as the Afghans did against the russians