Simple.
My wife and her family are ethnic Russians who have lived in the Donbas for generations.
The Azov Battalion are Ukrainian nationalists who view Ukrainians as pure Slavs and Russians as mixed-race mongrels.
They'll tell you as much if you ask them.
After the fairly-elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovich was tossed from power in an illegal coup in 2014, the pro-Russian Donbas seceded.
Azov Battalion has tried to make a claim on that land since then, engaged in a brutal war against separatists to take land that never belonged to Ukraine.
Ok. Now I understand.
Thank you.
Didn’t think in this day and age with easy Genetic testing the Ukrainian Purist can’t see that they’re probably mixed also.
Here I thought it was based on religion or Jewish race.