https://freerepublic.com/tag/ukrainianjews/ en-us Wed, 30 Mar 2022 04:54:41 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050807/posts Batozsky said he worked closely with the Azov Battalion during the 2014-15 conflict behind the scenes as a political consultant in Donetsk. It is this work, and his outspoken defense of Ukrainian efforts to defeat the separatists, that he says put him on the Russian hit list — and also that makes him confident that Russian charges of neo-Nazis in Ukraine are inaccurate. “They were soccer hooligans and wanted attention, so yeah, I was shocked when I saw guys with swastika tattoos,” he said about the Azov members he got to know. “But I talked with them all the time... Times of Israel https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050807/posts#comment Wed, 30 Mar 2022 04:54:41 GMT