Brigadier general Andriy Biletsky, the “Fuhrer” of the Azov movement and commander of the 3rd Army Corps, announced in early December the creation of a “Veteran Corps,” to unite veterans from all units of the Ukrainian armed forces. Of course, the Azov movement will be at the forefront. Days earlier in Kyiv, the Minister for Veterans Affairs met with the new head of the Veteran Corps, a neo-Nazi who goes by “Macgregor.” Once asked what makes the Azovite “3rd” so effective, he answered, “Commander Andriy Biletsky. There’s nothing else to say here.”
This 2017 Instagram caption by “Macgregor” refers to the “National Socialism / White Power” (NS/WP) network which originated in Russia
Yan “Macgregor” Klishayev has probably been a neo-Nazi for at least a decade. In 2022, he was in Poland, but last year he returned to Ukraine and lost a leg fighting in the Azovite 3rd Assault Brigade (3AB) under Biletsky’s command. Years before leaving Ukraine, Klishayev attended the National Socialist Black Metal (NSBM) “Asgardsrei” festival in Kyiv, organized by the Russian neo-Nazi Alexey Levkin, who is now a leading figure in the Azovite “Russian Volunteer Corps.”
Klishayev in 2025 and 2016 (wearing a shirt with Nazi SS-style Totenkopf)
Klishayev led a squad in the 3rd company of the 3AB’s 1st assault battalion, which he has described as one of the strongest companies in the brigade. After all, he explained in a December 2024 interview with the army’s information agency, the commanders of the 1st assault battalion mostly came from this unit, which has the Black Sun, a notorious neo-Nazi symbol, in its emblem. A month later, Klishayev did an interview with Centuria, the openly neo-Nazi paramilitary youth wing of the Azov movement that largely consists of insane NSBM fans. In this conversation, he suggested that Centuria’s goal is to become the Yunarmiya of Ukraine.
The 3rd company of the 1st assault battalion of the 3rd assault brigade of the 3rd army corps
One of Centuria’s first questions for Klishayev was about his military training with the 3rd Assault Brigade in Britain. According to him, the British instructors asked themselves, “What are we supposed to do with them if they already know how to do everything?” Klishayev mentioned his friendship with the late Nikita “Latvian” Tarenov, who co-founded “Nord Storm,” an even more hardcore neo-Nazi group within Centuria. Earlier this year, he received a visit in the hospital from Aleksey “Kolovrat” Kozhemyakin, a well-known Russian neo-Nazi who served in the same company as him. Whereas “Latvian” covered his arms in Waffen-SS emblems, “Kolovrat” has a Hitler tattoo and swastika on his chest.
Latvian and Kolovrat
The commander of the Veteran Corps is also associated with the Azovite biker fight club “M13,” the leader of which was invited to the Ministry of Youth and Sports shortly before Yan Klishayev met with the Minister for Veterans Affairs. This year, M13 has organized fighting competitions with the Ukrainian military intelligence agency, in particular its Nazi-infested “Tymur Special Unit” that includes the Russian Volunteer Corps. The RVC commander, Denis Kapustin, better known as “White Rex” and “Denis Nikitin,” is something like a founding father of “white supremacy 3.0,” which is centered around neo-Nazi combat sports.
Klishayev competing in M13 Fights, and Kapustin meeting with the Minister for Veterans Affairs (both in 2025)
If the war in Ukraine is really coming to an end, expect Andriy Biletsky’s neo-Nazi army to lead a formidable veterans movement. Announcing the Veteran Corps, Biletsky said that they “paid with blood for their own state. And now they have the right and the duty to build it further.” Rostyslav Nyzytsky, a top instructor in the 1st Azov Corps of the National Guard, put it this way: “I want to take her, she belongs to me, she’s mine. I have to take it away from everyone who isn’t me.”
Yuriy Pavlyshyn, a medic from the Nord Storm-linked “Hatred” battalion in the 3rd Assault Brigade, is the bass guitar player in Alexey Levkin’s NSBM band “M8L8TH,” also known as “Hitler’s Hammer.” Pavlyshyn, who co-organized a European neo-Nazi conference last year, advocates for a nationalist dictatorship of veterans, “because the real elites of our ancient Ukraine are now in trenches and dugouts.” Nyzytsky sees a model society in Starship Troopers, where only veterans can vote and hold office. Pavlyshyn calls it “Trenchocracy.”
Pavlyshyn recently visited the headquarters of the Italian neo-fascist “CasaPound” movement, and has another band with Levkin, “AKVLT” (“Adolf Cult”), which is also performing at an upcoming Christmas NSBM concert in Kyiv.
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