There is a battalion of the 98th Azov battalion.
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There are far right elements in Ukrainian society. It is unfair to refer to Ukrainian military units as right-wing. These units have been de-radicalized.
One of the units that has undergone this transformation is the 98th Azov battalion. The battalion is very similar to other Ukrainian formations.
The Azov movement is the most powerful of the Ukrainian far-right organizations. The Azov movement formed an armed paramilitary unit to resist the Russian troops.
The Azov soldiers were extremists. It used iconography from Nazi Germany and fought the Russians in addition to being a base of support for its racist founder.
The Azov Regiment was integrated by the Ukrainian army. The United States was opposed to the integration. The deradicalization process had begun.
Biletsky was campaigning for a seat in the parliament. The Azov Regiment was pulled from the front line in the summer of 2015.
The army's ideology was greatly affected by massive manpower turnover. By the time it came back to the front line in the early part of the year, it probably wasn't the same as it was before. It wasn't as well known three years later when Russia expanded its war on Ukraine.
Alasdair McCallum is a researcher at a university in Australia. The fearsome, pseudo-pagan regimental emblem has been abandoned, and the odious leader of the early years is long gone.
The ideological poison was mostly gone by the time the units were spun off. Mariupol, an historic city on the Ukrainian Black Sea coast that Russian forces surrounded and besieged early in the war, was the site of the 98th Azov Battalion's stand up this spring.
The 98th Azov Battalion is part of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Force. Territorial brigades and battalions tend to stay in the same cities and oblasts where they recruit their members when the Ukrainian army is active.
Since this spring, the 98th Azov Battalion has been defending a 50-mile swath of southeastern Ukraine.
It is an increasingly important area. One of the top goals of the Kremlin is to fully capture the oblast of DONETSK. There is a chance that the sector is a base of operations for a counteroffensive towards the Black Sea coast. In order to liberate the left bank of the Dnipro River, a counteroffensive is needed.
The Russians want to destroy the 98th Azov Battalion even though they know that Azov troops are not Nazis. The battalion has inflicted its share of casualties on Russian and rebel forces.
The battalion began as a light infantry formation. Machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades were its most powerful weapons. The heavy vehicles were pickup trucks.
The 98th Azov battalion has gotten heavier over time. NATO allies have donated armored personnel carriers to it. At least one Russian BMP fighting vehicle has been painted with a cross similar to the German army's own symbol. Tanks and bomb-dropping drones have been added to the battalion.
The harder the battalion fights, the heavier it gets. The 98th Azov Battalion knocked out five Russian troops in a skirmish near Velyka Novosilka.
The 98th Azov Battalion could play an important role in the event of an offensive from Zaporizhzhia. The offensive will be anchored by the battalion. It is1-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-6556 is1-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-6556
Russian propagandists will shout "Nazis!" whenever the 98th Azov battalion moves. Don't think it's true.
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