[Steve_Seattle]

"OR you could, just, look at Ukraine over the past 8 years and find proof of the "fascist coup government" killing innocent people in the streets. As this has never happened, you will never find any evidence for it."

The Azov movement arose in the wake of the Maidan Revolution in 2014. It is described as "a paramilitary unit of radical [Ukrainian] nationalists." It was particularly active in Eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian sentiment was highest. It evolved from the "Black Corps" and other extremist groups which held similar nationalistic and militant views. It is probably this group that the Ukrainian priest was referring to. By the way, this occurred in the regime PRIOR to the current Zelensky regime. I do not have a hard time believing that a paramilitary group with extreme right-wing sympathies - even Nazi sympathies - would target Christians.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

The Azov movement arose

The Azov movement consists of about 3000 people, and these days is literally staffed with hundreds of Jews, Romani and other minorities, as the original "far rightists" abandoned it and started their own political party years ago--with less than a percent of popular support.

Azov is the eternal boogieman Russia raises, even though all Russian separatists who were sent into Ukraine to setup the DNR/LNR are known literal Nazis and anti-semites, such as Igor Girkin-Strelkov (former minister of defense of the DNR). These men have either been photographed actually waltzing around in Nazi uniforms, or they have written/founded extreme Nazi magazines and propaganda.

If Azov is this big problem in Ukraine for Russia, why does Russia utilize actual Nazis to invade the country and serve as the puppet leaders of the separatists?