Azov Brigade returns to fight at front

The Kiev Independent via Yahoo ^ | August 17th, 2023 | Martin Fornusek

[Mariner]

The Azov Brigade of Ukraine's National Guard is again carrying out military operations at the front, Colonel Mykola Urshalovych said during a briefing at the Military Media Center on Aug. 17.

"The Special Operations Brigade 'Azov' has recovered and begun carrying out combat tasks in the area of the Serebrianskyi forest," the National Guard officer said.

According to Urshalovych, the Azov Brigade soldiers are holding the captured lines and inflicting heavy losses on enemy manpower and equipment.

On Aug. 15, the brigade's artillery destroyed a Russian mortar and a vehicle near the Serebrianskyi forest in Luhansk Oblast, the officer specified.

The Azov fighters became a symbol of Ukraine's resistance through their tenacious defense of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol in the first three months of the war. Russian forces eventually took Mariupol by May 2022, capturing the remaining defenders.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

5... Re-assemble the Soviet Union.

Right on cue, liberal! That's straight from one of Biden's teleprompts.

Biden says Putin's invasion of Ukraine shows he has 'much larger ambitions' and wants to 're-establish the former Soviet Union'

https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-putin-ukraine-invasion-trying-to-restore-soviet-union-2022-2

[Reverend Wright]

A lot of Russians were upset that they didn’t when they recaptured Mariupol.

The situation in Soledar was different with Wagner - they were given one chance to surrender and that was it.

[ransomnote]

In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Azov Brigade returns to fight at front, Dead Corpse wrote:

Less than 1% of the fighters in Ukraine are National Socialist, and for that you’d be ok with Putin putting the Evil Empire back together.

We have REAL Nazi’s here in the US... Would you be ok with Mexico or Canada invading us to kill them?

Idiot.

ransomnote:The Ukraine's head of the military and the Swastika on his bracelet:

 

ransomnote: The Media said there was a Nazi problem in the Ukraine until this war.

 

 

 

ransomnote: Some of the Ukrainian advocates on FR slip and blurt out their genetic hatred for Russians - I recall one said that all Russians are pigs and should be shot.

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Support for Zelensky/Ukraine is support for Biden/Deep State, cranked wrote:

NEVER GOOGLE ARTICLE 16 OF UKRAINES CONSTITUTION. WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE! https://mobile.twitter.com/REVMAXXING/status/1581441449811267584

[Dead Corpse]

There’s over a 1000 people in Azov... and you found the six idiots.

Congrats.

When Putin has the Soviet Union back together, maybe he’ll invite you over for borsch.

[Reverend Wright]

“When Putin has the Soviet Union back together, maybe he’ll invite you over for borsch.”

---

Since Russia will be the only Western country where Christians are not prosecuted, we may have to take him up on it.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Russian -- Ukrainian --- information --- propaganda -- salvos fly right here on FR.

One small point. The headline "Azov Brigade returns to fight at front" comes from The Kiev Independent reprinted in Yahoo.

For any who did not read the article AND comments, the first comment states:

US CONGRESS ATTEMPT TO DESIGNATE AZOV REGIMENT AS A TERRORIST UNIT 13.11.2019 Rep. Max Rose of New York, chair of the counter-terrorism subcommittee, submitted a letter to the US State Department co-signed by 39 members of Congress. It urged the department to designate the Azov Battalion (a far-right paramilitary regiment in Ukraine), National Action (a neo-Nazi group based in the U.K.), and Nordic Resistance Movement (a neo-Nazi network from Scandinavia) as terrorist organizations.

Looking further one finds of Rose:

“I’m baffled as to why my Republican colleagues have refused to sign on to this,” said Rose. “Not only are Azov Battalion, National Action, and Nordic Resistance Movement directly connected to inspiring attacks in the homeland, they’re direct purveyors of anti-Semitic ideologies that inspire attacks against Jews. It’s curious to me that the Republican Party, for the better half of this year, are claiming they’re against anti-Semitism. Here they have an opportunity to label it, but they’re not willing to stand against it."

Source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/59nqmq/house-democrats-just-demanded-these-neo-nazi-groups-be-prosecuted-as-international-terrorists

Just as here on FR threads, salvos in the Yahoo comments went both ways...

--- Awesome! Take back Mariupol and send the Orcs back into the ground!

Answered by:

--- Siberia is about to get a few more inmates.

[McGruff]

Stupid Russians let them surrender in Mariupol.

[Firehath]

Hatfield / McCoys

Dnc diversity

Chicken fight

Kunte kinte

[MalPearce]

On the contrary. There’s no argument that the Poroshenko era battalions were massively nazified. As was the Ukrainian Rada.

But that was 2014-19.

Between 2019 and 2022 Ukraine voted out the nazis in the Rada, and the nazis in the regular military were broken up.

By December 2021 even the DPR observers were admitting that the occasional firefights between combatants were killing less than ten combatants a month.

When Russia attacked Mariupol, the Azov battalion became a rallying point because they had 8 years of experience in guerilla warfare and knew where the arms caches had been hidden. So anyone wanting weapons and training quickly went, naturally, to Azov.

So Russia can thank its own retarded self for turning a near irrelevant Azov Nazi battalion within the National Guard that had been broken up, into the go-to outfit for the Ukrainians’ Home Defense.

And Azov attracted a lot of non Nazi members because they had the weapons, training, battlefield experience, and were in the right place at the right time.

I’ve told you both before, I am in regular contact with “ethnic Russian” Ukrainians from the Donbas who are now in Zaporizhzhia city defending it from the Russians. They had to go to Azov first, when the Russians showed up, because when the enemy tanks are on the horizon you can’t go 600 miles northeast for assistance; you go to the local militia that’s sitting on a stockpile.

[ransomnote]

“So Russia can thank its own retarded self for turning a near irrelevant Azov Nazi battalion within the National Guard that had been broken up, into the go-to outfit for the Ukrainians’ Home Defense.”

Pathetic. Really pathetic attempt at distortion. Russia invaded to eliminate the threats of bio warfare labs on its border and the Nazi influence in the Ukraine that codified ‘ethnic purity’ and shelled ethnic Russians, and most of all the revered Banderas. I get it - the Ukrainians refuse to ever admit the truth and all they do, 24/7, is blame Russia Russia Russia because they couldn’t soak up 100+ billion dollars from Americans. This failure of decency and morals in a significant portion of the Ukraine made them easy prey for NATO to use. I can’t imagine what promises were given, but something convinced the Ukraine they could win this thing, all the while portraying themselves as ‘saintly’ victims.

[delta7]

The US’s pet Nazi’s are back, with arms and equipment supplied from the US.
They will go the way of the WW2 Nazis- I have absolutely no doubt …and our corrupted government will pay a price for their support, as we are witnessing.

The blood on senile Joe’s hands isn’t washing off.

[BlackbirdSST]

Idiot.

Dead Corpse...Joe Biden. What an apt name for Joe to post under.

[Dead Corpse]

Did you get help posting that? Make sure you print it out and have your Mom put it on the fridge.

Pipe down while the adults are talking.

[BlackbirdSST]

Did you get help posting that?

Yes. You helped immensely.

Make sure you print it out and have your Mom put it on the fridge.

My mom has been dead for 60 years.

Pipe down while the adults are talking.

Where?

[mac_truck]

Between 2019 and 2022 Ukraine voted out the nazis in the Rada, and the nazis in the regular military were broken up.

Moving the goalposts again...typical Tory deceit.