Hi Penguin,

I think what you are writing paints the wrong picture, without going deeper into the context. In a way, you are falling for Putin propaganda.

Yes, the Azov battalion might have been started by people who had far right leanings. However, since then it has been transformed, and those types of people only form a minority. During the Donbas War, they were even financed by oligarch Kolomyisky, who is Jewish. He was also the oligarch initially linked to Zelensky.

Most of the people making up Azov are Russian-speakers, and it even includes Jews among its fighters. Here is the English translation of an interview a Russian opposition journalist did with Azov (notice what they say about Hitler and Nazism):

Twitter translation of interview:

Anyways, the most important thing is how many far right politicians are actually in the Ukrainian parliament. The simple answer is 1 or 2. These parties have very little support within the Ukrainian population.

However, if you look at which types of parties support Putin in Europe and abroad, you will get a pretty good trend. It’s either far right or far left. Most fascists are for Putin.