Reacting to a damning report by Radio Canada, Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Middle in Israel, blames the Canadian authorities for coaching neo-Nazi fighters in Ukraine.
“Canada has spent practically $1 billion to coach Ukrainian forces since 2014, Radio Canada says, in an article revealed on April 11, 2022. Army personnel from the Azov regiment, recognized for its hyperlinks to the far proper, have benefited from this coaching, based on paperwork analyzed by the radio.”
The article states, “Since 2015, Canada has helped practice 33,346 candidates from Ukraine’s Safety Forces, together with 1951 components of the Ukrainian Nationwide Guard (GNU), as a part of Operation Unifer. The price of this program is over $890 million. Each six months, roughly 200 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel rotate to supply safety power coaching help. All of those personnel have been briefly relocated to Poland till circumstances permit coaching to renew.”
The Azov Battalion and Nazi ideology
Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Middle in Israel and arguably the world’s biggest “Nazi hunter”, reacted to this data on April 13, 22, within the Canadian day by day Ottawa Citizen. Efrain Zuroff reproached Julien Trudeau and his authorities for not having “proven vigilance” on this matter, explaining that “It’s the accountability of the Canadian Ministry of Protection to know precisely who it’s coaching”. He added, “There is no such thing as a doubt that there are neo-Nazis in varied kinds in Ukraine, whether or not within the Azov regiment or in different organizations.”
The Azov battalion was integrated into the Ukrainian military. Its hyperlinks to the far proper have all the time been acknowledged. In 2017, Canada’s Joint Activity Pressure Ukraine produced a briefing on the Azov Battalion, acknowledging that “a number of Azov members have described themselves as Nazis.”
Ottawa Citizen remembers that in 2018, the U.S. Congress banned using U.S. funds to supply weapons, coaching and different help to the Azov Battalion due to its hyperlinks to the far proper and neo-Nazis. The UN and Amnesty Worldwide have accused the unit of human rights violations.
Nazi insignia
Putin is thought to have used, amongst different issues, the argument of the presence of neo-Nazi fighters to justify the battle in Ukraine. However the Russian invasion and the sympathy it generated for Ukraine in Western nations served as a catalyst for a wider acceptance of Azov, based on the Canadian day by day.
Nonetheless, the far-right sympathies of some Ukrainian army items are typically an issue. NATO not too long ago used Twitter to focus on ladies within the Ukrainian army, however the group needed to take away the tweet “after social media customers identified that the ladies pictured had been carrying Nazi insignia.” Others have claimed that the allegations made in opposition to the Azov Regiment are a part of a Russian disinformation marketing campaign.
Efrain Zuroff doesn’t imagine this. This isn’t Russian propaganda, removed from it,” he says. These individuals are neo-Nazis. There may be an ultra-right aspect in Ukraine and it’s absurd to disregard it.”
L’opérateur de drone de RIA Novosti a filmé les premières photographs du ciel du territoire d’Azovstal à Marioupol, où les derniers soldats ukrainiens sont bloqués. Essentiellement les mercenaires étrangers et les extrémistes du Régiment Azov. pic.twitter.com/yeVN9UocBD
— Imprévisible 🇲🇱🇨🇮🇷🇺 (@Hadji1006) April 18, 2022
