Belligerent Rhetoric & SS-Style Regalia: Who are Right Sector and Neo-Nazi Azov?

Russia has been conducting its “special operation” to protect the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) to a chorus of Western mainstream media persistently slamming its actions as “an invasion.” However, the latter for years turned a blind eye to crimes committed by the Ukrainian military with support from neo-Nazi militias.

The Azov Regiment, an openly neo-Nazi unit operating within Ukraine’s National Guard that adopts Swastika-style runic insignia, along with the Right Sector*, a hardline nationalist paramilitary union notorious for its atrocities, are accused of being complicit in crimes committed in Donbass, Eastern Ukraine, according to a recent statement by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.