“I’m also hearing: The Neo-Nazi Azov brigade was sent to bolster Ukrainian defenses on the flanks while troops in forward positions retreated, but they were caught in the open field, massacred, and are refusing to follow orders.”
I’m thinking that the Kiev government knows that a condition for having serious talks with Russia is dealing with their Nazi Infestation, so perhaps this is how they’re trying to do so - send them into the arms and/or guns of the Russians.
One comment I ran across suggested the Azov neo-Nazis were preparing a coup to toss Zelenski and put the recently ousted general back in power (I know that’s not how you spell Z, but Slavic spelling is an exercise in futility for me.) So it would make sense to throw them under the bus in the fields outside of Avdeevka to forestall such a scheme.
Zelensky, of Jewish ancestry, said the quiet part out loud last year: he wants Ukraine to become a ‘big Israel’, as well as allowing dual Israeli citizenship. After cleansing Ukraine of Nazis, the final step will be to use this opportunity to cleanse Ukraine's breadbasket of Christians. The strategy is to create a second homeland for Israel, a gift for God's chosen people, paid for by the West.