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The Azov Battalion is a volunteer militia based in Mariupol, Ukraine that is allegedly linked to neo-Nazism. The fighters have been very active during the crisis in eastern Ukraine, carrying out nightly patrols around the city and manning checkpoints.
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This aged well
“no cease-fire” i mean yeah if you don’t recognize the minsk agreements and still patrol eastern ukraine evicting Romani gypsies
They won't age well cuz they Will die soon
Not the bit about not being able to withstand russian forces
@@mariopappalardo3818 yeah there’s a reason Mariupol was damn near leveled. Azov is on its last leg. They will be all killed soon.
@@kosmo1638 these are literal Nazis
Anyone surprised they kept this up?
Slava Ukraine
Pray for azov
Russia is terrorist
You in graham Phillips chat?😂
@@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 dork
Glad they didn't take this down. People need to see what is going on over there.
Yea they are a bunch of neo nazis
@@joaquinflores3547
there are less than 10000 azov members dude
most ukrainian soldiers are actually nice and only want to protect their sovereignty
you’re brainwashed mostly by russian propaganda
Azov is only 2500 soldiers ..I bet you will find more Nazis in Germanys
I just watched a BBC reportage dating 3 years ago that clearly shows how the far right militia (Azov) were very closed to the Ukrainian government, the video is still up but you can't comment. Back than western media didn't shy away from showing this face of Ukraine now play down the issue! Just wondering what's really going on as I find it hard to find unbiased sources
@@BricksIn
You have to obtain all the videos about Ukraine neonazis from BBC Newsnight before they take them down
I'm surprised this video hasn't been removed from TH-cam.
Why would they delete it, this better stays here so new generation learn there was a country who made nazis national heroes. Seeing it on videos is better than any book because people won't doubt who they really were.
@@codaalive5076the cope
@@neilpopovich4966 Sure, their days are numbered, same for right sector, aidar and other nazis.
@@neilpopovich4966?
@@codaalive5076 yer Russia did.
Back when Simon was detained by pro Russian separatists, they sent a team deep inside his chin cleft to check for smuggled weapons.
papersplease lol
I wasn’t sure if his kid little glasses made his chin look big or vis versa! But hey! You always have to look pretty like a hipster even in a war zone!
@@Treasuremonk sure act tough im pretty sure u dont have even a quarter of the balls he
@@Remy.- bahaaa, I worked and lived as a PSD contractor in Iraq for years back 2003 , Haiti for 3 years. Angola for 3 years , Mexico,, don’t tell me I have no balls buddy!! 🤣
Ew!
Lmaooo "He had a pretty girl"
:D
🤣🤣🤣
@@Technotrad3r 💀💀💀💀💀💀
I think you better ask yourself why this unit is using the SS as their emblem? You cannot say you didn't see it while reporting.🤔
Modern journalists miss a lot of things and a lot of people are getting things wrong right now.
@Imperator Stephanus hahahahah, also black nazi Sun in the middle is probably Ukrainian white Sun.
Bad thing, many of Azov fighters have swastika tattoos, also many of them have photos with real Third Reich flags. Google is full with that.
@@lordtshelby7869 so which side are the neo-nazis on?
@@filthycasual8074 the azov battalion is a right wing extremist group. They believe in Slavic paganism and are also neo-nazis. They also have a big history of war crimes in the Donbas region
Because they are fucking nazi's about to get crushed by the bear. It happened in wo2 and will happen again.
how hilarious when the guy explain that the Azov logo is actual a acronym and do no refer to anything nazi... Yeah sure, check out the SS regiment "Das Reich", and i'm not even mentionning the black sun symbol behind it which is undeniably a nazi symbol.
Azov is neonacist group. They glorifying Stephen Bandera. Naci collaborant. Ukraine government is glorifying Stephen Bandera. Bandera is war criminal. Do research on him. Do research on Volin tragedy.
I got a Facebook ban for posting a picture of the Azov Battalion Flag in an attempt to SHOW people who they are.
@@danielgriff2659 this is because we "have a freedom of speech".
@@danielgriff2659 I’ve been messaging people sending them multiple links and images of AZOV, people I know that 2 weeks ago were super pro Ukraine aren’t nearly as much now after seeing what I’ve sent them. These are Neo Nazis no more and no less
@@user-jn8tl1qk5f as much as i agree they are a neo nazi group, freedom of speech is not implied on private platforms just like you cant walk into a walmart and start screaming obscenities
Kirt seems like a groovy guy. I get the feeling he learned English from a collection of Bob Marley albums.
You nailed it mon.
For sure mon
A guess nazis can be cool?
Schismatic churches are cool too if it serves nato.
At first i thought it was a spoof involving Sacha baron cohen, that guy sounds like Ali G/ borat
Vice News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky embeds with the Azov Battalion while they train and conduct a patrol, then watches as they retreat from their outposts when pro-Russia separatists began firing artillery toward the city of Mariupol.
More on the conflict here: news.vice.com/topic/ukraine
Stay safe
I'm sure Symon enjoyed his stay with the ultranationalistic far-right neonazis of the Azov Batallion. I don't see any bias, not at all...
Stay safe, VICE crew. Don't take too stupid risks, it's not worth dying over this.
It's nice to see you back Simon..stay safe. You have a long career in journalism ahead.
Brandon Austria lol the Azov guys probably did not know Simon Ostrovsky is Jewish.
Just ignored the black sun logo lol, can't really make up anything for that one eh
You think they would use the Slavic Black sun instead of the german one.
@@DaveDahuh exactly and the fact they don't shows their true allegiance
@@doomfathertm8771 They're probably not even Slavic.
@@DaveDahuh The amount of Low IQ comments in this section are not surprising but you sure are a new breed.
seems like democracy has entered ukraine
Yes
What kind of democracy 🤔 A free, representative democracy? Or a pure democracy, which oppresses minorities?
@@megancrager4397 same democracy as west promote to libya, iraq, syria, afghanistan. idk what kind democracy is that
you mean far right extreme fascist democracy? I was told there were no fascists in the front lines provoking the pro-russian and that the Azov Battalion is a myth.
@@anonvpn5087 who told u that? TIME doesnt agree with you th-cam.com/video/fy910FG46C4/w-d-xo.html
This aged very well 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah Russian convoys getting destroyed by kid with a drone funny😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@nicgur_6981said the Nazi simp
@@nicgur_6981you must be a wannabe nazi
@@nicgur_6981why is Ukraine losing then?
@@Andrey_Benzin where is Ukraine losing?
Just wait and see how they take this video down.
Still haven't, because we're not Russia
"To be continued" ... Ain't that the truth!
How quickly people forget
No, only you did.
Why is nobody talking about this in the media? Oh, yeah, because they don't want us to get the truth
not once has any news outlet reported on the Azovs, go figure...
@@FordFalcon1962nBlue yes I know, it's a rhetorical question…
The news also doesn't report that in 2015 congress banned funding and training the Azov Battalion siting their neo nazi background. And thanks to pressure from the pentagon that got taken out. Amazing how they forget
Azov battalion is literally one of the most reported things during the War what are you on about? Who do you think they are talking about when they talk about Mauripol, cause it's not some random unnamed national guard unit lol
@@nickolasvulcan9536 on which planet do you live? Look at the news reports and newspaper, not any yellow press is writing about thus guys. I wouldn't know if it weren't these old reports. I know that Ukraine was communist, and that there was censorship, but it's quite weird for democratic countries to censor
The Russian army has entered the chat.
Go back to Russia
@@nmdgks imagine being this dump
😂😂😂
The nazi scum answered to red army.
@@algreen1231 NATO (player 3) has joined
Isn’t the Azov regiment known for being Neo-Nazis?
Of courses !
DW Documentary : women and Azov battalion !
@F. A. thanks for that list
Of course they are! It was not Putin who started the war this year, but it was the NAZIS in Ukraine who started the war against the Russians in Donbass 2014 !
@F. A. You are very wrong! You know nothing of the history of Ukraine and these organizations you listed! They are all far right and there is plenty of proof and facts to prove it!
I'm going to guess they are highly aware who is watching this documentary and want western support. So he says oh no, that's not a nazi logo just because it looks exactly like one. 🙄
Exactly
Some things can be coincidences but go ahead please respectfully show me another view point to the azol on the side of their mark
The only reason they use Nazi symbolism is to mock the Russians because during World War II they were anti-soviet and at first saw the Nazis as liberators but then learned of the atrocities and were treated poorly by both so they then wanted Independence
@@rubenlopez3364 That doesn't even make sense. So they started to also hate nazis but chose to keep their symbols and salutes around?
@Ruben Lopez you need to go and read some history books
These Ukrainian soldiers need some serious morale boost to fight or else Ukraine is going to depend on NATO to do something. It is so obvious Russia is supplying those rebels with weapons and even soldiers to perhaps help fight.
thousands of russian regulars are in ukraine. this is a fact. dozens of them have already been captured proving Putin to be a liar.
johnny smith
so the ten captured russian paratroopers are just a figment of my imagination?
johnny smith Why do you think they are talking about prisoner exchanges? There are Russian soldiers in Ukraine, I have no clue if they are there for fighting or just to scout places out for the rebels so that they can do the fighting but it is a fact Russians are in Ukraine, just Russia is denying it because that would give NATO a reason to do something. Russian soldier's deaths are being repressed in Russian media and they are saying that the soldiers were in a rebel group before they were sent to fight.
Dakev Kor
dude its fucking tragic what the russian soldiers mothers are going through when their government refuses to tell them the truth about how their sons died
rideordie Russian soldiers have entered this war this week. please dont say dumb stuff.
A major element that people are missing today.
Define "major" Azov has 1000 members. The fascist groups Wagner and RNU that Russia sent in ALONE have more members each. Putin has literally sent in triple the amount of neo nazis than were there previously.
@@Dangus35 Did I say it was partisan and only one side was doing it?
Who is here after Ukraine attack?
Me, Ukraine has a nazi problem but it is not as big to go kill innocent people, USA has more kkk members
You mean the Ukraine Liberation.
@@caregazo2100 BS is KKK part of US army or are they in control of govt. You are delusional, go to Ukraine and see with your eyes
@@richmoney941 do you have any evidence of Ukrainian gov be control by nazi, I will like to know. You know the their leader is Jewish.
@@caregazo2100 Azov General is a minister , Azov neonazis are national guard of Ukrainian , what are you talking about
Hi, I came from march, 2022, to remind western media of something...
Surprised this wasn't taken down
*WHy dont they show this on TV?!!! SHARE!!!*
Because west hate Russia and west (especially Usa and ukraine )want to destroy Russia and russians.
@ Prins dwunasty
One thing is for sure - the west has been ignorant of the Nazi nature of the Azov Battalion.. considering the fact that thousands of Americans are now volunteering to fight for them and “ the Ukraine”
As we speak!
The West has either been totally ignorant or totally complicit but either way, we are waking up now.
The Ukraine isn’t at war with Russia. The Ukraine is and has been at war with itself for years.
Ukraine has been the epicenter of fraud for many people including George Soros , and Hillary Clinton- and now it’s time for Putin to clean it up.
I stand with Russia, and Trump❤️
And bandera also collaborated with nazi germans
When you look at the president Zelenskyy and his cabinet, you can tell they are white supremacist supporters , that’s why they crest this nazi army to fight against the separatist Russians in east Ukraine, this is the Crook news network won’t tell the world about
You know Russia has such groups too right? Just Google
Now they are a National Guard Brigade with an Assault Brigade behind them :)
Look at vice chilling with the nazis.
"To be Continued"...Yep, 2022.
Victory to Ukraine!!
*+Sanja Comedian* Ukrainian army cleaned 2/3 territory of Donbass www.kforcegov.com/NightWatch/NewsLetters/NightWatch_20150112_files/media/image3.jpeg
You know that the Azov battalion is a Neo-Nazi paramilitary fighting for Ukraine.
They are litterly the modern equivalent of the Waffen-SS.
Vice should get an award for this collection of historic events
Award for Nato-Propaganda... perhaps.
@@Musicsson How is it propaganda? He is giving no opinions and letting people speak for themselves. Most of our judgement comes from what the soldiers of both sides have to say and the publics' opinion. In addition, most of the evidence is visual anyway as it is recorded. Not propaganda at all, so don't even try and argue that it is.
@@markscarisbrick1534 Whatever, dude.
nazi symbols of ukrainian fighters
@@Musicsson You people literally have state-run media... I don't wanna hear it from people who's legacy is Soviet.
Who’s watching this in 2022
Ja. Pozdrawiam.
Putin kicking their teeth in now LMAO
Not exactly how I would describe what is happening. You have a grudge, and wish.
@@markhonea2461 reducing their cities to Stone Age … yeah he’s right .. Putin kicking their teeth
@@MM65629 funny. And so wrong. Laughable.
@@markhonea2461 Putin is WINNING this dear. The sabre rattling is being ignored. If the globalists act, Russia has NUKES.
@@danielgriff2659 the elite are panicking
THE best kind of reporting. Multinational news corporations don't stand a match. Keep the good reporting coming!
Man they went downhill fast.
Nato TV. They don't mention that asov is a neo nazi group.
@@theodore8178 cause its not
@@theodore8178 100%
@@NerdestGamaer 🤣🤣
Once there used to many, now this specie is critically endangered
LONG LIVE UKRAINE
ty my european friend :)
+PolishAdam Recenzja Kanlow Unfortunately they are. All because america didn't want them to be free and wanted to get closer to Russia.
SPARTAK MOSCOW and it’s the fault of putin and his war crimes
Thank you very much for reporting, stay safe.
Cease fire = RELOAD TIME
This was filmed before the cease fire....
10:00 was fire from "grad". It destroys everything in range of 30km leaving only burnt ground. You're saying someone should sit around to die?
Litteraly wearing the black sun symbole of the SS and saying hes not a neo-nazi wtf???
Well, she sure is a pretty girl!
Long live Simon Ostrovsky and his cameraman!
Funny how you journalists kept your mouths shut with the slander when around real fascists
Russia's Right sector is nazis too. You should look up the number of nationalist groups in Russia, before u run your mouth.
Ok so ig everyone forgot abt this now
Don't underestimate the power of mainstream media that constantly act as Minister of Truth.
Not really. Same war different time.
The ceasefire has been broken! The DPR claims that they are about to storm Mariupol.
Really? I hope the DPR are annihilated
chopsticks7life
The loses on the east front are 7kk Soviet Union - 5kk Axis. If you compare the loses to the west front they are 2-1 for the germans.
chopsticks7life they won because the nazis had no supplies coming in. No winter clothes. And no reinforcements. But until they ran out of supplies, they handed russia their ass.
***** I can have a gun with a magazine full of ammo and Russia can have a gun without a magazine and who do you think would win? Russia has more nukes, but ours are actually activated. They only have a few that are ready to go. And setting one up is a time consuming task.
Alec MácCnáimhín really Alec? I disagree...all it takes is a few well placed nuclear hits.......and everyone loses
“1 man, 2 girls, but sometimes we find something interesting”. 😂
The arrogance of power. When these people think they are stronger than someone else, they play soldier and intimidate people they think weaker than them. Hope they learn from this experience and treat everyone the same.
Yea, they told random people at the beach they cant be there because they can get shot at, like who do they think they are lol
They don't "play soldier", they ARE soldiers. Have you not seen Trench videos coming out of Ukraine in the last year and half? What's YOUR rank, couch general?
9 years later. There al dead.
well it is what it is
It's foolish to accept a cease fire when the job is not finished.
They just got their ass handled in the battle of Ilovaisk, they are ruined and about to be destroyed at this point. That's why Poroshenko asks for ceasefire.
Folk Singer yeah they got there ass handed to them when they where told that they could get out of a encirclement and then were fired apon
@@rhodie. because wstern nws is soooo honest, you moron
I dont understand why people are calling the Ukrainians "Neo-Nazis" for simply defending their own Nation.
For instance, I live in Australia. If all of a sudden 50% of the population declared that Australia was part of China, I'd be up in arms defending Australia for its right as its own country, just like the Ukrainians are doing.
We may have ties to NATO and the West given our former British-colonial status and culture, but we are still effectively an independant Nation.
I think it may have something to do with the behavior and imagery. Venerating the SS Battalion of Ukrainian volunteers and the fighters of Stephan Bandera. The countless published imagery of Ukrainian army and volunteer Battalion with swastika, wolf hook, Nordic sun and other Nazi imagery. The tactics they've used in maidan along with the propaganda of svaboda and right sector. It really is not a stretch at all to insinuate it. I think the Ukrainian's would be more honest if they would just own it and say "so what?"
@@jeremykaleschenkoikov6993 hell im a nationalist but i dont go around murdering people i dont like
Fritz Leschenbranner there’s def a lot of far rights amongst them but they’re not in the wrong for defending their country
Australian is not a nation
@ScoutSniper Atomwaffen are a joke and not even taken seriously even by their peers
Hooking in a car, during a prolonged "not-so-that-kind-of" civil war? Damn, they were nuts.
2014 Interesting.
“Kirt” looks like Tom Hardy
that guy with the drunk accents is literally everywhere in Azov videos lol I wish he lives
glory to ukraine
고맙습니다🇺🇦🇰🇷❤️
@@samuraiace454 Влада України!
калибра 7,62 в пустую тыкву.
traitor
@@slipperyfish5634 what traitor
There's a perfectly good explanation as for why they weren't given the tanks that they were promised. Poroshenko needed them for his fancy parade! Because after all, that's a much better use for the desperately needed weaponry. Rather than sending it to the front lines where it might be put to work.
Azov battalion also permeates into intelligence services and all throughout current Ukraine Government.
Weirdest combination, Jewish president and Neo Nazi special forces.
@@lordtshelby7869 I mean, America is the master of propaganda, why not prop up a Jewish president to shield actual Nazis? Identity politics is very cost effective.
Kremlin propaganda bullshit
4:45 was the ice bucket challenge really necessary at this time of night?
Now I see why Putin target the City of Mariupol, these guys have been shelling Putin's boys for years. I hope there have managed to get military training since then
Yes, NATO spent billions over 8 years training and arming the Nazis, but it only helped increase civilian casualties. Now there are a few thousand of the most powerful NATO-trained group left stranded at the Azovstal plant and the Russian Federation is offering them to surrender, but Kiev needs them more as sacred victims, like the Heavenly Hundred on the Maidan in 2014, no one is going to unblock them. If NATO financed not Nazis, but, for example, children of athletes, there would be less bloodshed in the world.
This is what we supported and called heroes
These are in Russian hands now, captured in Mariupol.
Vice embedded with them.
Tells you who pays them.
british lgbt is paying them
Gavin McInnes helped create VICE, later founded The Proud Boys.
So no surprise at all.
@@branquitodemunze lmao you guys show your ass, what happened to "fighting fascism"?
That is Marioupol 7y ago.Was there bombing or fighting there 7y ago or just Azovites harassing prorussian civilians?
There were no bombings, the Ukrainians took this city very quickly. There was almost no resistance. The locals tried to put up barricades, but they were quickly dismantled. There is a video on the Internet from May 9, 2014, how everything happened. The thing is that Azovstal is a very large enterprise and belonged to the oligarch Akhmetov (he created Azov). Therefore, he could not lose his wealth.
"They seem to be moving in the wrong direction if they want to defend the city..." they just fled away :)
i am the most politically disengaged person, but even I remember the stronghold far-right, nazis in ukraine had on their govt. back in 2014-2015. I remember seeing these vice reportings and being digusted by them. So to hear just a few years later, western powers are financially backing these nazis and then turning to media outlets to say that "Azov aren't fascists" and "that's just Russian propaganda" makes me feel like im losing my mind. Manufacturing consent happening in real time. And the everyday ukrainian's suffer regardless. Non-western countries suffer bc they are reliant on euro economies & industry. I despise the west.
Yeeeep!! Its insane. Azov has been labeled nazis by the west for years. Its crazy how people listen to this crap and believe it! Then the people who notice the lies are called right wing extremists and conspiracy theorists. This world is falling apart. People are so brain washed that the media doesn't even have to hide or cover up their lies anymore. People just believe everything they say.
So basically this is like ancient history to the Ukrainian military since this video the azov battalion was brought into the nation military (previously being a militia) in 2019 in order to Linda strip it of the nazi stuff. Most Russian propagandist will completely over look that and point to this video in a low effort attempt to justify the invasion
First, decide, Nazis or fascists? And answer the question, what is Nazism?
@@user-fj1tc6dq2c nazism is a type of fascism. it’s just fascism with an added layer of white supremacy, antisemitism, eugenics, and silly beliefs about the “aryan race” etc. on top. The azov battalion subscribes to those beliefs, so they could accurately be called nazis and/or fascists.
Another history lesson from 1939 when Winter War started and the first guys crossed the Finnish border, 3 hours after Helsinki got bombed.
The "Sergei Lavrov" of 1939 Molotov, when called for answers by US said "We aren't bombing Helsinki, we are going for airports"
So nothing really does change. Some country gets attacked, the reason gets denied and no one really helps.
Democracies may take time
@@y.z.7432 Скільки часу? Місяць, 2 місяці, ... ?
Aged like wine
@@user-iy7ju3vf9n indeed
@@michaelr.7805 I didn't understand. Can you please explain?
Excellent reporting. Keep it up.
Hahaha 😂 great joke
@@geraldmorris5341 So what counts as real reporting
@@geraldmorris5341 🤡
Thank you for report .
1:10 interesting story. What's that symbol behind the two letters?
This is Third Reich heritage and those guys will tell you fairy tales about their peacefulness
@@ruslankbr5243 sounds like boring fairy tales, I'd rather hear them choke on their own spit.
Wolfsangel
@@Dima-mc9ue Yes it is definitely a wolfsangel, I was being sarcastic and referring to the fact that even if the wolfsangel is, as the soldier claims, an I and an N, it is directly in front of a Black Sun, so it really wouldn't even matter. But yes, it is a dumb excuse for pretending that the symbol isn't a wolfsangel.
@@Cia-Coo actually some of them doesn't even deny that. Once I drank some beer with one guy from Azov in 2017. They don't easily talk about white supremacy or smth like that. But if you show them, that you're OK with these ideas - oh, man...
VICE News and personally Simon - you're so great, thank you for your videos!
VICE on Azov in 2015: 😡😡
VICE on Azov in 2022-Present: 😘😇
Wow the low key shade at the end
I wonder how many of these men are still alive.....
Pls zero
@@Poum1935Alavictoria Proof?
@Ethan Elston Yep. And I/we said proof. He's gone quiet so I guess he doesn't have any.
7:15 i bet he had some of this "marijuana" stuff from those people who having a good time on the beach. :)
I would be interested to know if any of the Vice reporters who have been with the Azov battalion have seen any signs of their fascist believes? There are numerous photos going around the web of allegedly Azov soldiers with Swastika symbols and SS symbols on the side of their helmets. If the Vice reporters been there have they seen any of those?
If they did Vice won't report. The militia group does in fact have varying degrees of "facism" within its ranks. They use more of the symbols of Nazism like swastikas but aren't really praising Hitler. Eastern Ukrainians are predominantly ethnic Russians not Ukrainians. That's why the civilians are attacked by pro-Kiev militias as well as the government. At the end of the day the strongest will survive.
They have the wolf's hook and black sun rising on their emblem. Both used wide spread by "nazi" groups.
WeedSmokinRepublican not true they have seen one guy with a necklace of a swastika. N the guy talked about how it's been around alot longer than nazi or something like tha
edward kraser WTF? I wasn't denying they used Nazi symbols lol
No. That vice won't report on it is what I'm saying they have tho
To give the Ukranians the benefit of the doubt, it isn't smart to clump together in a single location when you are being attacked with rockets. Scattering in different directions mitigates the damage from any direct hit so that could have been what they were doing there.
a day before the strike happened, the mayor of the town called for an evacuation to the train station specifically, instead of other evac sites, which amassed civilians in one area. Craziest coincidence is that the train station is the target the whole time
After the merit they showed in mariupol, it's pretty safe to assume they withdrew to minimize casualties in the event of a direct attack.
Here are some evidence on what Putin was talking about.
Hardly an excuse to wreck a country.
Putin is a nutjob.
So are these guys.
They deserve each other.
Ship them off to another planet, away from the rest of us.
@@JB.zero.zero.1 ofc it's an excuse
I don’t know why people see Nazis, all I see is just a poorly trained men who have no idea what they’re doing no equipment nothing there just a gorilla warfare.
@@TheMemeLibrary cause there is a lot of evidence that they are neonazis, hell even the us government acknowledges them as nazis
@@TheMemeLibrary They're racists.
I still don't understan why this peopke do nazi thing if their are not nazi 😂.......... it ' s like i do homosexual thing but i'm not homo ! Wtf !
WTF nazi thing did they do?
Wolfsangel🤨
No just lightnings of Ukraine energy company)
my god, they sound like gangsters.
Good job VICE allways with the best information
First 10 second of the video i hear "byaaat" love it
This documentary about to be memory holed.
nope.. they coulda PULLED this, but anyone can go look up Azov Battalion and see they are Nazis.
And btw retreads, the Z laying down with a harpoon through it is Symbolic, but not the Putin lies you make it. Ask Punanny who The Wagner group and Russian nationalists are.
I'm guessing the Azov battalion and other volunteer units don't get heavy equipment from the government because the government doesn't trust them enough still, than because there isn't any. They fear that these units might not be satisfied with the results of the eventual peace.
Sadly they are in full control of weapons sent by NATO countries. Soon those weapons would be used against other European countries, this will backfire. Just wait and watch
Your comment aged like milk.
@@Ajox191 Except that the conditions have changed, its not Azov battalion anymore nor is it a volunteer unit.
Clearly they are trusted at this point.
Literacy is a good thing! It helps to understand what youre reading ;)
@@phil__K that's not true at all. You are telling lies.
@@Ajox191The Azov battalion was implemented into the Ukrainian military literally over night in 2014 after Ukraine's regular army refused to wage war on their brothers.
This all started after Ukraine's democratically elected government was overthrown in a US backed coup in 2014 and a pro US government was selected by US officials. Naturally the pro Russians in eastern Ukraine (and Crimea) was outraged and started peacefully protesting on the streets of Donbas so the government sent Ukrainian troops to shut them up. I've seen a video of Ukrainian tanks firing at protesters and some of them were elderly... I guess the rest is history.
Man, being a reporter on a battlefield is pretty scary work.
Interesting to see what happened already in 2014!!
Theres a whole bunch of lads after these lads
Hey vice. Why dont you report about white phosphorus being used againist civilian in eastern ukraine?
Its all a Russian propoganda says American propoganda.
They have two journalists on the ground (more than most of the news networks) and they report what they see. Vice doesn't do breaking news.
I think in one of the videos they covered it, i cant remember which one though.
Walz God - thank you! I'm so sick of these trolls coming in to talk crap about Vice just because their journalists aren't everywhere in Ukraine at all times.
Putins commentator!
they invent all sorts of fairy tales!
Azov: uses Wolfsangel in their coat-of-arms
Also Azov: No, we're not nazi
@White Fridge swastika is an ancient indian symbol. It is used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. If they used it instead of wolfsangel, you would also defend them?)
That's not a wolfsangel, dude
@Someone These guys from the Azov battalion use the swastika as a Nazi symbol. They are inspired by Hitler's SS divisions and honor Nazi henchmen from western Ukraine who fought on Hitler's side. Batalien Azov consists of members of various neo-Nazi organizations, which in turn were formed from ultra-right football fans.
Azov fights to the end
Azof =🤮
clean up in pit 404
This aged so well, let the westerners see who they support!
So are you saying they shouldn’t support the innocent people are being affected by this?
@@xtina1235 Innocent people died since 2014 in eastern Ukraine. Nobody cared.
They arent supporting the innocent covilians? They support azov with weapons and money
Can we forget we saw these proofs of nazis in ukraine ?
And that it's multiplied since then
@@casebarreoltt5990 I bet these videos will soon get deleted
@@JudaismIslamUnited there is no need, people are sheep they dont watch putin or lovrov speech
Dead ken cant fight, the soldiers are being wise. With no atg weapons or mbts,the Ukrainian forces don't stand a laughing chance. These guys didn't even have mortars; That big independence day parade was the biggest blunder of the 21st century.
All the good stuff is kept in Kiev too attempt to hold back the inevitable Maidan 3.0 which will finally clear it of all of the oligarchs,
Well they were doing fine for many months until some guy at the Kremlin (I don't know what his name is, Putin or something?) decided that it was time for more involvement.
And now it's a full blown war. 😳
Bring back Simon
To those who called the Ukrainian soldiers in this video cowards...
If you you heard the sound of a MRL being fired directly at you, would you run? Because if saw what happened to the field were the soldiers were getting set up, I don't think anyone would survive that...
It's not a question of what you would do. Soldiers are held to a different standard to Civilians
Ukraine rewrote history, destroys its memory and professes Nazism ... Ukraine became the base of the Nazis for the whole world .... people were killed here until 2022 --- foreign mercenaries came here to kill Russians on safari ... until Putin intervened on February 24 22 years old ... you are the countries of Europe and the USA - you bring only death and grief to the world, you arrange wars with us, and then live off the war ...
Not cowards .. just nazis and murderers
@ryanross9785 I don't really care about ideology. I'm speaking from the point of view of any soldier or combatant. I'm speaking of what a soldier should do in the event of indirect fire. Even in the modern US Military, the general direction given is pretty much "scramble in a certain direction until you've hopefully ran far enough away from it. Which is something you should know about Specialist Ross.
@@TeaAndBullets 8 years later 😳
I don't know if it's a coincidence or what but the Nazis last ditch troops where called werewolves and used the exact same insignia on there uniform. Maybe that's how the Nazis thing started.
Adolph, Himmler, Goering, Heydrich and Borman would be proud.............unreal to think we support these guys....!!
Told you Simon's a badass
Good to see more of these videos being posted. Seems like things are picking up and getting hot over there. Stay safe guys.
These are literal nazi
@@dialedin5875 nationalst not nazi
Do you need volunteers
@@amonke5276 they wear the black sun. Of course they are nazis. Dont get me wrong im strongly opposed to Russias offensive, but giving nazis this much power doesnt sound like a good idea to me
@@thehighground174 if they fight russians its fine
Most of these guys are dead