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US lifts weapons ban on Ukraine's Azov brigade
BBC ^ | 11 June 2024 | By Jaroslav Lukiv

Posted on 07/13/2024 8:57:45 AM PDT by Red6

The US has lifted its long-standing ban on weapons supplies and training to Ukraine's Azov brigade, whose origins were mired in controversy over alleged links to far-right groups.

A state department spokesman told the BBC a vetting process "found no evidence of gross violations of human rights" by the brigade.

The Azov brigade, now a unit within Ukraine's National Guard, hailed the move, saying Russia's "lies... received a devastating blow".

Moscow condemned the decision, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying the US was "even prepared to flirt with neo-Nazis" to suppress Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly made false claims about a "neo-Nazi regime" in Kyiv to try to justify first the annexation of Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backing of pro-Moscow fighters in the east in 2014, and then his full-scale invasion launched in 2022.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: azov; azovbatallion; killkillkillforpeace; mic; russia; ukraine; war; welfarewar; zeepersthrilled
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To: Responsibility2nd

The Deep State has not had this much Nazi fun since Operation Paperclip when they created fraudulent documents for Nazi scientists to get them out of Germany.


21 posted on 07/13/2024 11:01:25 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Carry_Okie; Responsibility2nd

Oh, I get it.

Sorry-

The association with “far right” to being Nazi.

***Far right, being for many a minimalist government, decentralization, making the Constitution the centerpiece of our law.***

I can get behind that.

There is an association created for those on the right (including myself), that believe in something very different than a Nazi but would be called “far right” by a liberal media that slanders anyone with this label which loves freedom.


22 posted on 07/13/2024 11:35:14 AM PDT by Red6
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To: Red6

No apologies necessary. I hope you don’t think my comment in post 8 was directed at you.

It was a reaction to the BBC and their assuming Nazis are far right.


23 posted on 07/13/2024 11:50:32 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: DesertRhino
More desperation from the Nuland brigade. The Azov isn't what it use to be after being thrown into losing battles a few too many times. All this tells me is Ukraine doesn't have many regular units left to fight.
24 posted on 07/13/2024 4:00:36 PM PDT by Rdct29 (The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
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To: Red6

thanks for posting this...
yet another terrorist act by this illegitimate Biden regime.
Did Biden do this with an EO?????
would that be legit since the ban was passed by both houses of congress???


25 posted on 07/16/2024 9:02:32 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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