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According to
The Daily Telegraph, the Azov Battalion's extremist politics and professional English social media pages have attracted foreign fighters,
[31] including people from Brazil, Italy, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Greece, Scandinavia,
[6][31] Spain, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Russia.
[6][63][64] About 50 Russian nationals are members of the Azov regiment.
[65] The group has used
Facebook to recruit far-right individuals from other countries within Europe.
[66] In 2019, under Facebook's
Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, support for the group was not allowed,
[67] although this was temporarily relaxed during the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
[68]
Around 20
Croatians joined the Azov Battalion in January 2015, ranging in age from 20 to 45.
[69][70] After Croatia's foreign minister
Vesna Pusić confirmed that there are Croatian volunteers in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry called Croatia to withdraw its citizens from armed conflict. Pusić replied that Croatia opposes any involvement of Croatian citizens in the war, and stated that they went on their private initiative and that Croatia is working on bringing them home.
[71] Interior minister
Ranko Ostojić said that Croatian volunteers are fighting on the side of the legitimate Ukrainian government and are not committing any kind of crime according to Croatian law.
[72]
Swedish Azov volunteers Mikael Skillt and "Mikola"
In late 2016, Brazilian investigators uncovered an alleged plot to recruit Brazilian far-right activists for the Azov Battalion.
[73][74]
Members of the American neo-nazi terrorist group
Atomwaffen Division have also joined the Azov Battalion.
[75][76][77]
According to Minsk Ceasefire Agreements, foreign fighters are not allowed to serve in Ukraine's military.
[78] Despite the Minsk Ceasefire Agreements, the regiment still has foreign fighters,
[79] including an ex-British army serviceman Chris Garrett and a 33-year-old former soldier of the Greek army and French Foreign Legion known by the
nom-de-guerre of "The Greek".
[79]
Human rights violations and war crimes
Reports published by the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have connected the Azov Battalion to
war crimes such as mass looting, unlawful detention, and torture.
[80][81] An OHCHR report from March 2016 stated that the organisation had "collected detailed information about the conduct of hostilities by Ukrainian armed forces and the Azov regiment in and around Shyrokyne (31km east of Mariupol), from the summer of 2014 to date. Mass looting of civilian homes was documented, as well as targeting of civilian areas between September 2014 and February 2015."
[80]
Another OHCHR report documented an instance of rape and torture, writing: "A man with a mental disability was subject to cruel treatment, rape and other forms of sexual violence by 8 to 10 members of the 'Azov' and 'Donbas' (another Ukrainian battalion) battalions in August–September 2014. The victim's health subsequently deteriorated and he was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital."
[81] A report from January 2015 stated that a Donetsk Republic supporter was detained and tortured with electricity and
waterboarding, which resulted in his confessing spying for pro-Russian militants.
[81]
When they say "far right" they mean nazi socialist.
