March 16, 2022 (The New Atlas/LandDestroyer) - It is now 3 weeks since Russia launched special operations in neighboring Ukraine to confront NATO expansion, the building of a Western-sponsored army of literal Nazis on Russia’s borders, and to end the 8 year long war the US-sponsored regime in Kiev has waged on ethnic Russians on Russia’s doorstep in eastern Ukraine.
References:
1. BBC - Ukraine war: 'Sky turned red' as missiles hit Lviv military base (2022):
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60728208
2. US Congress - H.R.133 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/133/text
“Sec. 9015. None <<NOTE: Azov Battalion.>> of the funds made available by this Act may be used to provide arms, training, or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.”
3. CTV News - Far-right extremists in Ukrainian military bragged about Canadian training, report says (2021):
4. Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University - Far-Right Group Made Its Home in Ukraine’s Major Western Military Training Hub (2021):
5. CTV News - Ukraine denies Russia's claim that 180 foreign nationals died in latest strike (2022):
“The Yavoriv base is home to the International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security. It served as the headquarters for the Canadian Armed Forces mission in Ukraine until they relocated to Poland last month.”
6. Nolan Peterson (Twitter) - thread on foreign mercenaries pleading to be saved from Russia:
https://twitter.com/nolanwpeterson/status/1503004351975075845
7. NPR - A closer look at the volunteers who are signing up to fight the Russians (2022):
“Ukraine's western city of Lviv has, so far, been spared the worst of Russia's invasion. But a diverse resistance is taking shape there and is reinforcing some of the cities now under attack.”
“I'm the head of the foreign fighters who come from Europe to Azov Battalion. This is my group. Now they're going to make a tactical training. Then they're going to go to the front.”
“So let's talk about the Azov Battalion. That regiment has a reputation for having the fiercest fighters in Ukraine. The paramilitary is credited with recapturing the southern port city of Mariupol from Russian separatists in 2014. And despite their neo-Nazi affiliations, they were folded into Ukraine's National Guard. Groups like this are what Putin uses when he tries to paint Ukraine as rife with Nazis. It's part of his justification for invading.”
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