Azov Regiment troops pose with captured Russian car in Kharkiv area; supply: Azov Kharkiv Telegram channel
US media and politicians are celebrating the Ukrainian offensive within the area north of Kharkiv. What they fail to say is the very fact the Ukrainian assault is being spearheaded by the neo-Nazi Asov Regiment.
“Troopers of the Azov Kharkiv Particular Operations Forces (SOF) and the 14th Mechanised Brigade named after Prince Roman the Nice liberated and cleared the whole northeast of Kharkiv Oblast, from the village of Vesele to town of Vovchansk”, Ukrainska Pravda experiences, citing the Telegram Channel of the Azov Kharkiv SOF: “Full de-occupation of areas of Ternova, Varvarivka, Izbytske, Staritsa . The state border has been taken underneath management.”
Russian online news site Lenta experiences that mercenaries from Academi (previously Eric Prince’s Blackwater) are additionally concerned within the Kharkiv offensive, citing Russian state-owned VGTRK tv journalist Andrey Medvedev. “There may be info that PMC (Non-public Army Firm) Academi is actively concerned within the operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the previous Blackwater,” Medvedev mentioned.
Unbiased sources have confirmed the claims. Gateway Pundit has reached out to Academi proprietor Constellis Group for remark.
Medvedev famous the PMC operators might embody not solely Individuals, but in addition residents of different nations, together with former navy and law enforcement officials from South America in addition to Ukrainians, residents of the republics of the previous USSR and Jap Europeans, Lenta writes.
The Azov Regiment was lengthy decried in western media as a neo-Nazi militia, till the Russian invasion of Ukraine, after they had been immediately white-washed as simply one other a part of the Ukrainian navy. Congress banned US arms aid to the Azov Regiment in 2018.
A 2016 report by the Basis for the Examine of Democracy for the OSCE accused the Azov Regiment of systematically torturing prisoners.
A report by Amnesty International August 2022 accused Ukrainian forces of “placing civilians in danger and violating the legal guidelines of conflict.” Amnesty additionally accused Russian forces of committing conflict crimes within the space of Kharkiv.
