“was formally incorporated into the National Guard on 11 November 2014.”
The complete statement: The unit was founded in May 2014 as a volunteer paramilitary militia under the command of Andriy Biletsky to fight pro-Russian forces in the Donbas War, and was formally incorporated into the National Guard on 11 November 2014.
Furthermore, the Azon fighters in eastern Ukraine were being trained by some group either domestic or foreign, and they were heavily armed.
You can keep bringing up your BS, but that is all it really is. I also seriously doubt that the bringing down of the passenger plane was an intended act. It was a pre-emptive strike because they didn't know who it was.
But the reality stands that a kinetic war could have been averted. No Ukraine land mass taken, and most importantly no blood shed, as well as, no infrastructure demolished.
But that was not what was wanted, and that can not be denied.
But you conveniently avoid that reality for some reason.
Why is that? Was it because you wanted the kinetic war, along with the death & the destruction?
“They can call them separatists, but they were not separating from Ukraine at all.”
Except they issued declarations of independence. That’s a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion up for debate.
“The complete statement”
Which still confirms that I was correct that Azov was not part of the Ukrainian national guard at the time, unlike what you claimed.
“they were heavily armed”
Yet not armed with aircraft. And Russia still provided the “separatists” with anti-aircraft weapons, which would be quite useless if Russia was simply arming them to defend against Azov.
“I also seriously doubt that the bringing down of the passenger plane was an intended act.”
Again, that’s completely immaterial. All that matters is they shot it down, with an anti-aircraft system provided by Russia, which disproves the notion that Russia was simply arming these groups for self defense against the Azov paramilitaries they were fighting at the time. They were being armed for direct conflict with the Ukrainian regular army. That means Russia was fomenting a revolution in a foreign country, which proves the usual Russian apologist narrative about the origin of the Ukraine conflict is nonsensical.