Profile: Who are Ukraine’s far-right Azov regiment?
Russian President Vladimir Putin cited the presence of the Azov regiment, a controversial Ukrainian far-right voluntary military group, as one of the pretexts to invade the eastern European nation on February 24, 2022. Putin had said the invasion was “to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine”. The Russian president still maintains, the military unit, which has since been integrated into the national
