RE: As per CAW's post27 Mar 2022 15:15
You don't get it do you?
Which country does Donetsk and Luhansk belong to?
Azov. Approximately 1,000 strong of which about 10% to 20% have far right tendencies. That's approx. 200 at most. Has all this destruction, killing and displacement happened because of 200 people? Really?
Formed after a call for help by the Ukrainian government when Crimea was annexed and then backed the Russian separatists in Luhansk and Donetsk.
If Putin hadn't done the above, there would be no Azov.
Putin did the above because he spat his dummy out when the pro Russian president of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych, fled to Russia in 2014 after an uprising, The Russian influence had gone in Ukraine and Putin retaliated, first by annexing Crimea then he backed separatists in Luhansk and Donetsk. This is were the story connects back to the far right because in 2014 the Ukrainian military was much smaller than it is now. It was struggling and brigades of volunteers joined the fight against the separatists. Some of them had far right elements. The most high profile was the Azov battalion. Since then the founder of Azov (who admits that he has far right tendencies) has left.
The Ukrainian army has 250,000 + 50,000 national guard and 1000 Azov volunteers. That’s approx 1/300 of the Ukrainian army folks.
In know you like youtube.
I watched "Winter on fire" via Netflix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzNxLzFfR5w
Look at the brutality of the then Russian backed Victor Yanukovych.
Watch "Stalin's Daughter" for an idea of how these Russian leaders look after their own. Also on Netflix.