West Well Aware of Racism, Neo-Nazism & Atrocities in Ukraine But Keeps It on Hush-Hush – Scholars by Ekaterina Blinova, https://sputniknews.com/ As Russia continues to conduct its special operation in Ukraine to denazify the county, social media are circulating sinister photos and videos of Ukrainians taped to lamp poles and trees, labelled as “marauders,” “Russian agents” or “diversants”. The inhumane acts are often attributed to nationalist and Neo-Nazi groups. – “Probably as any sane person, I’m simply terrified to see these horrors – in terms of lynching people, kicking them, trying to somehow smash their identity through tying them to the lampposts and painting their faces in the colour of the Ukrainian flag,” says Adriel Kasonta, a London-based foreign affairs analyst and former chairman of the International Affairs Committee at the Bow Group think tank. “This is terrifying, that is beyond any human being’s dignity, it’s really terrifying to see these pictures.” – Many reported atrocities are being committed by Ukrainian nationalists and the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. Being incorporated into the National Guard in 2014 the group is subordinate to the Ukrainian authorities. The Azov Battalion, which openly wears the neo-Nazi Wolfsangel insignia, is notorious for attacking and displacing residents in eastern Ukraine, as well as raping and torturing detainees in Donbass, according to a 2016 UN report by the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHA). – read more.
