Of course the Azov bunch never existed. Just a made up myth pushed by pro Russian troublemakers in the Donbas.....
“Of course the Azov bunch never existed. “
Sarcasm aside, nobody’s denying that Azov weren’t a bunch of thugs who did indeed cause a lot of civilian casualties...
UNTIL 2019.
And don’t forget, the source of that’s not a Western source or the Kremlin, it’s the published fact-checked numbers from the DPR’s own ombudsman..
The political institution that represented the separatists FIGHTING Azov, is very explicit - their investigations confirm a body count that’s so low that no credible person could ever call it a genocide.
Although maybe there could be a convincing reason why the DPR would say “Sure, Mr Putin, there’s a genocide going on here!” and THEN say to its own troops “Yup, we’re playing the genocide card”, but THEN publish a report (two years in a row!) saying in effect “Genocide my ass, we had more deaths from drink driving than we had from the Azov-Separatist fighting.”