This was stated by the spokesman for the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. The activities of nationalist battalions in Ukraine for many years were in the interests of the West. Moreover, it was the West that financed it. The task, as Vladimir Putin stated, is to take away weapons from the nationalists up to wooden assault rifles. Frankly speaking, Nazism, neo-Nazism, is a cancerous tumor of modern Ukraine. It was fostered and actively pumped with grants from the West. Huge resources were thrown in to build the entire system of nationalist education throughout Ukraine.
For years, all these nationalist battalions performed the function of crusaders, on behalf of Western handlers. Is it necessary to remind that these brave guys also trained our militant revolutionary groups for the seizure of power in 2020, and they openly declared it.
Ilya Kiva, MP of the Verkhovna Rada:
The Ukrainian Nazism was financed by the West. This is their model of destruction of our Slavic world and genocide over the Russian-speaking population. We must clearly understand that Ukraine has been under American occupation since 2014. Since that time, Ukraine has lost its independence. Everything that has happened over these years is the systematic work of the American secret services to destroy and colonize our country. What we are witnessing today is the liberation of Ukraine from the Nazi regime.
In Mariupol, the fighters of the Ukrainian Azov unit are holding the townspeople by force and cover themselves behind their backs. This is how the Ukrainian militants are trying to save their lives.
When the Ukrainian army refused to shoot its own people in the Donbass steppes in 2014, the so-called volunteer units, Aidar, Donbass, Azov, the Right Sector, performed their bloody function.
Yesterday, the Russian Investigation Committee published a list of persons responsible for the deaths of civilians in the Donbass. The list may not be complete. It includes 85 individuals in the Ukrainian Armed Forces who give and carry out orders to use prohibited means of warfare in Donbass. In eight years, more than 2,600 people were killed. We are talking only about civilians. 5.5 thousand were wounded. There was also the shooting on the Maidan and the tragedy in the Trade Union House in Odessa. Since 2014, there have been a number of crimes that are still a mystery, on which official Ukraine could certainly shed some light.
Over the past few years, the West has generously fed Ukraine's nationalist formations. Statistics show that after 2014, the so-called tourists from Europe and America began pouring into Ukraine en masse. The Western press speaks of a six-fold increase. And the assumption that they go there for the sake of sights sounds extremely absurd. Moreover, they go to the areas where Ukrainian radicals are trained. This is, by the way, a classic tactic. Exactly the same thing happened in Syria and Iraq. And there, too, a radical core, generously stuffed with Western weapons, was used to overthrow governments. We have already aired a fragment of one of the speakers at the Bandera readings about how the nationalists of Ukraine enjoy "the fun to kill".
