After months of waiting, they were reunited with family members on Monday, according to a statement from the office of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and photographs distributed by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service.
Under the terms of the swap, the commanders of the battalion must remain in Turkey - which brokered the exchange - until the war ends. The group’s defense of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol - the southern port city decimated by Russian forces in the first months of the war - has become a powerful symbol of the suffering inflicted by Russia and the resistance mounted by Ukraine. Commanders of Ukraine’s celebrated Azov Battalion have held an emotional reunion with their families in Turkey, Ukrainian officials said, honoring the fighters released from Russian confinement last month as part of the largest prisoner swap since the start of the war.Īmong the 215 Ukrainian prisoners of war released in the exchange were 108 members of the Azov Battalion. Released Azov commanders have an emotional reunion with family members in Turkey. Today the New York Times topped that evolution by turning a Ukrainian government press release into a tear dripping story about the reunion of freed Azov losers with their families: Mar 17 2022: Facebook last week said it was making an exception to its anti-extremism policies to allow praise for Ukraine’s far-right Azov Battalion military unit, “strictly in the context of defending Ukraine, or in their role as part of the Ukraine National Guard.”Īpr 29 2022: These scenes are from videos shared online in recent days by the Azov regiment, a unit in the Ukrainian military, which says they were taken in the mazelike bunkers beneath the sprawling Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine.Īs I had written previously: What was once "a Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary organization" which even the FBI said is notorious for its “association with neo-Nazi ideology” was first relabeled as merely "far right" before it became a normal "unit in the Ukrainian military".
calls “a paramilitary unit” notorious for its “association with neo-Nazi ideology,” accuse us of being part of a Kremlin campaign to “demonize” the group. Mar 15 2019: On his flak jacket was a symbol commonly used by the Azov Battalion, a Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary organization.įeb 11 2020: Defenders of the Ukrainian Azov Battalion, which the F.B.I. One could follow those changes along various pieces in the New York Times: 'Western' media continue to denazify Ukraine by pretending that the Nazi formations in that country, which they had long decried, are now a harmless collection of celebrities. OctoMedia Hide Fascist Ideology Of Ukrainian Militia Which Visit Congress
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