There’s literally a yellow glowing Nazi wolfangel on the wall behind him to the right, just one of many Nazi insignia used by official units of Ukraine’s armed forces, armed, funded and trained by the US and its European proxies.
The mainstream Western media had previously exposed Biletsky as a Nazi like this article from the Telegraph.
Now Ukraine’s Nazism is simply ignored as it expands out of control and spills constantly into the open, even in Germany which pretends to reject its Nazi past while supporting a Nazi present.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11025137/Ukraine-crisis-the-neo-Nazi-brigade-fighting-pro-Russian-separatists.html (https://archive.ph/O8S43)
A fun statistic for anyone interested:
Azov has now expanded to the point that it makes up about the same proportion of the Ukrainian military as the SS did in the Nazi Wehrmacht.
Like the SS they are the best equipped, best paid, get the best trained recruits, and have the most political influence of any part of the Ukrainian military.
Yeah, they’re basically the ideological core keeping the army together.
The best trained and best equipped troops line is ironically Nazi propaganda, as the SS suffered atrocious casualty rates throughout the war due to poor leadership, organizational chaos, and lacking effective combat training. The only exception was the 1st SS Adolf Hitler, 2nd SS Das Reich, and 3rd SS Totenkamf who received the bulk of new German armoured equipment in preparation for the 1943 Kursk offensive, only to promptly lose nearly 70-80% of their combat effective strength in only a handful of days.
The SS were actually withdrawn from active combat operations with few exceptions between 1940-1943 because SS units were virtually annihilated in the Battle of France due to horrible tactical decisions and troop morale. They were infamous for mass charging enemy positions which ends about as well as you expect that move to end.
The SS’ mindless ideological brutality funnily enough made the cadre horrible soldiers, but excellent prison guards.
Honestly sounds even more like Azov.
Good points. To be fair though, there is a lot of that sort of exaggerated reputation with Azov as well. They have a lot of fancy expensive gear and their commanders get treated as celebrities around the world but they generally stay away from actual fighting and prefer acting as barrier troops for the conscripts.
In the battle of Avdeyevka they ran away without orders when the Russians were closing in too fast and left the conscripts to slow the Russians down. In Mariupol they spent weeks holed up under ground in the industrial zone crying and begging to everyone around the world to tell the Russians to let them go. The Kiev regime always prioritizes them for prisoner exchanges. They seem most comfortable when they get to do war crimes, torturing and killing unarmed people, most of the time fellow Ukrainians.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
