U.S. lifts weapons and training ban on Ukraine's Azov Brigade

CBS News ^ | June 11, 2024 | Anhelina Shamli

[McGruff]

The United States has lifted restrictions on providing weapons and training for the high-profile Ukrainian military unit the Azov Brigade. The U.S. State Department confirmed Monday that the unit, which has played a significant role in Ukraine's effort to repel the ongoing invasion launched by Russia in February 2022, could now be trained by U.S. military personnel and use U.S.-provided weapons.

The State Department's move reversed a decade-old prohibition imposed on the Azov forces under the Leahy Law, which prohibits the U.S. from supplying weapons or financial assistance "to units of foreign security forces where there is credible information implicating that unit in the commission of gross violations of human rights."

U.S. assistance to the Azov unit was barred under the Leahy Law about a decade ago, over concerns about its founder, the ultra-nationalist Andriy Biletsky, and other members having Nazi sympathies.

[McGruff]

We're getting desperate.

[dfwgator]

I did Nazi that coming.

[DesertRhino]

Ein Reich! Ein Volk!

[Erik Latranyi]

Arming NAZIs.....what could go wrong?

[circlecity]

So, we are now arming and training Nazi armies.

[dfwgator]

“We’re in business of armin’ Nazis....and cousin, business is a-boomin’!”

[PGR88]

Are there any Azov left?

[Reverend Wright]

LOL !

Getting ready to fund an insurgency / terrorist campaign led by these beauties.

[Robert DeLong]

They can’t lift what was never a ban.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

George H. W. Bush would be proud.

"Heil Zelinsky! Heil Zeepers!"

Azov logo a "coincidence" ? I think not.

[dljordan]

“Arming NAZIs.....what could go wrong?”

We already have the FBI.

[MattMusson]

Arm Nazis to save Democracy.

[jerod]

As long as they’re killing Putin’s buddies... Who cares?

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, until I make him my enemy again.

[JoSixChip]

Amazing what you zeeper freaks can justify. I just don’t see any difference between you zeepers and actual nazis.

The zeeper freaks of FR:
canuck_conservative
marcusmaximus
MeganC
Kozak
Williams
jerod

[iontheball]

Are there any Azov left?
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I’m quit certain the world will never rid itself of Nazis.

[13foxtrot]

Replay of the Arm Mujahideen (Taliban) Operation. That went well.

[jerod]

My uncle died fighting the real NAZI’s... Check your attitude.

[SaxxonWoods]

Got to do just enough to keep the dirty money-flow going. More destruction, more to rebuild later. Lives? Expendable, no problem.

[JoSixChip]

My uncle died fighting the real NAZI

Save your lying BS for your zeeper freaks. You post support for nazis in Ukraine right here right now.

[dfwgator]