The situation in Mariupol takes your breath away. With over 95% of the city having been leveled, a pocket of a few thousand Ukrainian solders are holding out and defiant. Thoughts of the Alamo come to mind.
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Some of the guys defending Mariupol are part of the Above Battalion, which includes neo-Nazis.
The Azov Battalion: Extremists defending Mariupol
I know Andreas Upland. Born in East Germany (and actually served in the East German Army before that concern went belly up), and has lived in Kyiv for years. He has been urging Ukrainian officials ot distance themselves from guys like the Azov Battalion.
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Good grief.
I guess mutual enemies make for strange bedfellows.
A case putting neo-Nazis to good use?
I guess. They just love their homeland and want to live there.
This is a photo from Euromaidan in 2013.
The red-and-black flags are Pravyi Sektor (Right Sector) flags. The same guys joined the Azov Battalion.
The red-and-black is the flag of Stepan Bandera of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, who welcomed the Nazis in 1941, then fought the Nazis, then fought the Soviets into the late 1940s.
Lake Como is in Northern Italy close to the Swiss border.
Dnipro was until recently Dnipropetrovsk, but the "Pyotr" after whom it was named was Peter the Great of Russia, so the Ukrainians dropped that and went with Dnipro instead.
By the way, this woman speaks English with a Ukrainian accent. The Ukrainians also speak Russian with the same accent.
Funny, I can't tell the difference in any of the slavic languages.
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