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Active Club Finland using Azov’s “Idea of the Nation” symbol (December 2025)
In early 2021, just over a year before the Russian invasion, a neo-Nazi gang leader from Queens, New York started a podcast with one of the most prominent Russian neo-Nazis in Ukraine. It was 2018, less than a year after “Unite the Right” in Charlottesville, that one of its notorious participants, Robert Rundo, leader of the violent Rise Above Movement (RAM), met his future co-host Denis Kapustin, better known as Denis Nikitin. They named their podcast after Rundo’s new “Active Club” network, which has drawn inspiration from neo-Nazis in Ukraine and proliferated in NATO countries as “the preeminent organizing model for far-right streetfighters.”
Thanks to his Jewish grandfather, Kapustin grew up in Germany. Today he commands the Russian Volunteer Corps, perhaps the most heavily neo-Nazi military unit in Ukraine. Years ago he inspired Robert Rundo, and not only as the godfather of white nationalist Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) tournaments in Europe, or the owner of a successful neo-Nazi brand, “White Rex,” which Rundo considered to be an exemplary “active lifestyle movement.”
When they first met, Kapustin essentially played the role of an “unofficial … ambassador-at-large” for Ukraine’s Azov movement. Rundo has said these neo-Nazis, and Kapustin in particular, “opened my eyes to the importance of sports culture to our movement.” A couple months after the Russian invasion, he taunted the Southern Poverty Law Center, “we [Active Clubs] are like AZOV but the US version.”
“This is always my whole inspiration for everything,” he [Rundo] told a right-wing podcast in September 2017, referring to Azov as “the future.” “They really have the culture out there,” he said. “They have their own clubs. They have their own bars. They have their own dress style.” (Time, 2021)
“Going to Kyiv [in 2018] and being able to compete, honestly, that was one of the greatest memories of my life. It was an honor. And I’ll always stand by those who stood by me… A lot of what inspired me…our ideas, the structure, the vision…it came from groups like Azov, CasaPound [an Italian neo-fascist movement allied with Azov], and others. (Rundo, 2023)
Last year, Active Club Finland adopted Azov’s so-called “Idea of the Nation” symbol. “This turn of events doesn’t surprise me; on the contrary, it was predictable,” commented Oleksiy Rains, the most public-facing ideologist of the Azov movement. “Thanks to its emotional power and aesthetic appeal, the IN [‘Idea of the Nation’ / Azov-style ‘wolfsangel’] will slowly but surely become a symbol of international far-right solidarity. Other equally powerful symbols have followed the same path in the past.”
Almost a dozen years ago, the newly created Azov Battalion launched a podcast, “Azov FM.” Olena Semenyaka, the International Secretary of the Azov movement, admitted in one 2015 episode (discovered by the journalist Oleksiy Kuzmenko) that Azov hoped “to create our own Right International.” In the same interview, she said, “Our movement is growing, but it’s still too small to compare it to a real movement of the kind that Germany had in between wars. But we’re moving towards this goal.”
“We are not resigning ourselves to the boundaries of thinking in terms of a single region. We defend not only the Ukrainian nation, national identity, but also the Slavic element, the European element, and in the end — the white race.” (Semenyaka, 2015)
The main topic of the Semenyaka interview was her “Reconquista” project, which hosted the Azov FM podcast on its website, “whitereconquista.com.” Oleksiy Kuzmenko investigated Reconquista, “Azov’s own white supremacist geopolitical initiative,” and later revealed that Robert Rundo followed Semenyaka’s project by the spring of 2015, well before he created the Rise Above Movement.
Three years later, when Rundo and other RAM members traveled to Ukraine, they met with Semenyaka and sparred at Azov’s Reconquista Club in Kyiv, where Denis Kapustin organized MMA fights. RAM “showed interest in learning how to create youth forces in the ways Azov has,” according to Semenyaka. Rundo got a tattoo of the White Rex logo, and by the end of 2018, the FBI raided his home. “Denis was the first one to pick up the phone,” Rundo recalled, who wanted to flee to Kyiv. Kapustin was probably his associate in Ukraine who promised, “we’ll take care of you … just see to it that you get your white terror ass here.”
2019 screenshot by Oleksiy Kuzmenko: “Gab account of American white supremacist group Rise Above Movement posted an image apparently showing a banner in support of RAM members sentenced in the USA at October 14th nationalist rally [led by the Azov movement] in Kyiv.”
Olena Semenyaka was still transparent about Azov’s ambitions in those days. For instance she told the US-funded broadcaster RFE/RL, “it’s possible for far-right leaders to come to power now” in Europe, and Azov “wants a position at the front of this movement.” Semenyaka has kept a low profile since 2022, but in 2024 she attended the launch of a “Nation Europa” network, which the Russian Volunteer Corps and Azov movement organized with CasaPound and other likeminded groups.
Weeks earlier, one of the top neo-Nazis in the Azov movement, Dmytro Kukharchuk, who now directs the ideological service of the 3rd Army Corps, declared that “if a European Reconquista begins, it will start with us.” According to the journalist Leonid Ragozin, for the Azovites who think globally, their ultimate goal is “to stage a white race revolution in Europe that begins in Ukraine, spreads into Russia and when these two join forces - proceeds into the rest of Europe.”
The Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), one of the “elite” units in Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, is probably trying to lay the groundwork for “stage two” of the “White Reconquista.” Over at Events in Ukraine, Peter Korotaev has written numerous article about Azov and RVC-adjacent networks of neo-Nazi accelerationists that are getting teenagers to go on killing sprees in Russia. The latter tend to be fans of “M8L8TH,” AKA “Hitler’s Hammer,” a Russo-Ukrainian National Socialist Black Metal (NSBM) band associated with the RVC (and before that Azov). Korotaev writes, “no aspiring school shooter in Russia is without such a [M8L8TH] hoodie.” In 2018 they released an album titled “Reconquista.”
Old picture of M8L8TH, which formed in Russia in 2002
To be sure, North America has also seen a rise in what the FBI is classifying as “Nihilist Violent Extremism.” Rundo doesn’t support “the accelerationists,” so he says, but he hasn’t shunned them from joining his network either. In one episode of the “Active Club” podcast, the future RVC commander Denis Kapustin sounded like he was just coming to appreciate “that the propaganda does work” on Russian youth, and “there’s a lot of things we can do.”
Right now, there’s a video on the Russian internet segment where a mother is filming her ten year old son, and he says … ‘I don’t want to talk to you because you are Putin-brainwashed lady,’ and they speak about the Second World War … and, you know, he speaks the unpleasant truth, although he’s a ten year old boy, and his mother’s being like totally hysteric … and she is being like the absolute bitch … and the little ten year old boy, he just says things that he obviously picked up from the internet from some forums, Telegram channels, stuff like that. So you know, I realized that the propaganda does work, and you know, we get nationalist Telegram channels now that are like over 100,000 followers on Russian internet … So you know, there’s still things to be done … There’s a lot of people who don’t know whom to follow, you know, and they’re looking for role models. … All my friends around me are getting children now, maybe now it’s even more work, you need to put out the propaganda for little ones, because I see these terrible videos with trannies reading fairy tales in United States.
Kapustin wants to break up Russia, and create a smaller neo-Nazi state centered in Moscow, which may surprise some readers, but perfectly aligns with Azov’s Reconquista. He likely sees the rise of so-called “Nihilist Violent Extremism” in Russia as a means to counter “cultural Marxism” and destabilize the country. “Wotanjugend,” a hardcore neo-Nazi group (associated with M8L8TH) that is enmeshed in the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Azov movement, asked its followers in 2023, after the RVC launched raids into the Belgorod region of Russia, “well then couch potatoes, is it not the RaHoWa [Racial Holy War] yet?”
Since 2024, a Russian neo-Nazi who reportedly served as the “formal head” of Azov FM, Mikhail Oreshnikov, has led the “Coalition,” which ostensibly unites pro-Ukraine “national resistance movements” in Russia and allied groups, including some RVC entities. Active Club Finland is connected to far-right Karelian separatists who recently left the Coalition but maintain ties to the RVC. For example, the “Soldiers of Greater Finland,” co-founders of the Coalition who believe in “the relevance of blood and our blood family,” have trained with Active Club Finland. The latter also supports the RVC, which has a “Nord” squad of Karelian fighters connected to Ukraine’s branch of the international neo-Nazi network “Blood & Honour.”
The RVC Nord unit
Not long before Active Club Finland embraced the Azov symbol, a Finnish-Ukrainian venture capital firm announced that it partnered with the Azov movement’s school for drone operators, “Killhouse Academy,” associated with the 3rd Assault Brigade and 3rd Army Corps. Its founder commanded a battalion that included French neo-Nazis, apparently with connections to Active Club France. According to Double Tap Investments, “we’re bringing this combat-tested experience to Finland and beyond.”
The upcoming Killhouse Academy Finland program will train not only drone pilots but also engineers, mechanics, and support specialists — building the ecosystem of skills Europe needs to meet new security challenges. … This initiative is more than a training program. It’s a bridge — connecting Ukrainian battlefield innovation with European defense readiness.
Apologies for going off on a tangent, but I wonder if this training program will appeal to Azov’s fellow travelers in Europe? A month after the Australian terrorist Brenton Tarrant attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, massacring 51 people and wounding dozens more in 2019, Olena Semenyaka addressed a neo-Nazi conference in Finland. In a blog post, “New Zealand Shootings: Who’s Guilty?” she seemed to blame the “wicked system” of “maniacal political correctness.”
Wotanjugend praised Tarrant as a “vengeful Viking who has definitely earned his place in Valhalla,” shared the livestream of his white nationalist rampage, and promoted a Russian translation of his “Great Replacement” manifesto. Other neo-Nazi elements connected to Azov (and now the RVC) have also celebrated him. Tarrant claimed that he traveled to Ukraine, fueling speculation that he trained with Azov. Semenyaka, after all, had invited the neo-Nazi “Nordic Resistance Movement” (NRM), already banned in Finland, to do the same. According to her, the German neo-Nazi organization Der Dritte Weg (“The Third Way”) became “our link” to the NRM.
The NRM and Azov were two groups supported in the far-right internet forum “Iron March,” which spawned the terroristic “Atomwaffen Division,” AKA the “National Socialist Resistance Front,” an international network of neo-Nazi accelerationists that also circulated Tarrant’s manifesto. According to Events in Ukraine, some Atomwaffen Division members attended the 2018 “Pact of Steel” conference in Kyiv, which was held in conjunction with the annual NSBM festival organized by Alexei Levkin, the lead singer of M8L8TH and another band, “Adolf Cult.” Levkin is another prominent figure in the RVC, also a leader of Wotanjugend, and a Russian ideologist in the Azov movement. “Hail the New Reconquista!” Semenyaka declared at the first “Pact of Steel” conference in 2016, which she probably organized with Levkin. Earlier that year, Azov FM conducted an interview with Andrew Oneschuk, a young neo-Nazi from the United States who soon joined the Atomwaffen Division (AWD).
Atomwaffen Division
In 2018, a 13 year old boy founded the “Feuerkrieg Division” (FKD), initially as the Estonian affiliate of the Atomwaffen Division, however it grew into an international AWD spin-off, which was also proscribed as a terrorist organization in the United Kingdom. According to a report by the “Center for Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism” at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies,
In February 2020, another American FKD member in his early 20s, U.S. Army soldier Jarrett William Smith (a.k.a. Anti-Kosmik), pleaded guilty to charges that he shared information online regarding explosives, weapons, and other destructive devices. Smith was based in Fort Bliss, Texas and Fort Riley, Kansas during this time. According to an official FBI affidavit related to the case, Smith discussed plans to attack CNN offices with a car bomb and a plot to assassinate Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke. Smith told FBI agents that he aimed to create societal chaos with his attacks. Smith also revealed that he had planned to join Ukrainian far-right paramilitary group the Azov Regiment once his Army contract ended.
In 2021, the Canadian government designated the Atomwaffen Division as a terrorist organization, and VICE News exposed Patrick Gordon MacDonald, “a 20-something graphic designer from Ottawa,” as the prolific AWD propagandist “Dark Foreigner.” According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, “After the [terrorist] listing, many former Atomwaffen Division members joined Active Club Canada,” which was just getting started. Apparently that included MacDonald, who did some work for Robert Rundo’s brand and media company “Will2Rise,” as well as video editing for Alexei Levkin’s NSBM record label “Militant Zone,” which also sells hardcore neo-Nazi merchandise.
The RCMP eventually arrested Patrick MacDonald and two other Canadian AWD members on terrorism charges. During MacDonald’s trial, it came out that he created a “Ukrainian” AWD video in Canada, made to look like a message from the Azov Regiment in the National Guard of Ukraine. The RCMP also arrested Matthew Althorpe and Kristoffer Nippak from Ontario as propagandists for the AWD and the “Terrorgram Collective.” VICE News reported that Nippak was “one of the key players who laid the groundwork for the national Active Club scene,” “the fastest-growing neo-Nazi movement in Canada.” VICE also exposed him as the blogger “James A Rants,” which for him began in March 2022. Nippak shut down the channel over a year later, claiming victory for “the pro-White pro-Ukraine community.”
[In 2022] I was not only incredibly upset with the events in Ukraine … But more than that I was seeing large portions of the [neo-Nazi] community I gladly gave 12 or so years of my life to supporting White Genocide and the most anti-Nationalist regime in the Western world [Putin’s Russia] … But now I feel I can delete my channel with less guilt for one simple reason: the Ziggers [a “pro-Ukraine” slur for “pro-Russians”] have been quite beaten down … Unfortunately support for Ukraine is not unanimous in the Nationalist community, especially in America and the UK, but without a doubt the pro-White pro-Ukraine community is much larger and louder in July 2023 than March 2022, and the reverse is true for the Ziggers.
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network discovered that “Active Clubs across Canada are being run by members and affiliates of the Vinland Hammerskins, a violent white power gang.” The international Hammerskins are also connected to Active Clubs in the United States and Europe. In November 2022, touring the Active Club network in Scandinavia, Kristoffer Nippak visited Finland’s “Hammer House.”
AC Canada is also associated with “White Lives Matter [WLM] Canada.” While Nippak met his Finnish comrades, WLM Canada staged a small neo-Nazi protest in Toronto “in remembrance of the Holodomor,” or the 1932-33 famine in Soviet Ukraine, which they described as “the anti-White genocide committed against our people by the (((bolsheviks))).” In 2023, members of AC Canada attended Toronto’s Ukrainian Independence Day Festival and were delighted to find a booth decorated with the original neo-Nazi flag of the 2014 Azov Battalion. Soon thereafter the Canadian Active Club network took credit for the appearance of “pro-Ukraine” graffiti, inspired by a Militant Zone poster, which said “DeNazification Never!”
Around that time, a major scandal erupted after Volodymyr Zelensky and the Canadian government gave standing ovations to Yaroslav Hunka, a 98 year old veteran of the Ukrainian Waffen-SS “Galicia Division.” AC Canada subsequently declared Hunka “a hero” and laid flowers at a memorial to the Galicia Division in the Toronto area, which probably had something to do with its removal in early 2024. “For the first time in decades at least, someone received a standing ovation in Canadian Parliament who truly deserved it,” the group said on its (since deleted) Telegram channel.
Also in the aftermath of the Hunka scandal, near Philadelphia, a small neo-Nazi organization, “S14,” also known as “Storm Division,” made a video at a Ukrainian Waffen-SS memorial on the anniversary of the KGB’s assassination of the 20th century Ukrainian fascist leader Stepan Bandera. S14, perhaps named after the Ukrainian neo-Nazi organization C14, worked with the Embrace Struggle Active Club and other likeminded groups in the tristate area. Andrew Takhistov, a teenager from New Jersey, split with S14 and created his own “White Legion,” just in time to kick off 2024 with a celebration of Bandera’s 115th birthday. Later that year, Takhistov tried to conspire with an undercover FBI informant to attack power stations in New Jersey, after which he intended to join the RVC. According to WIRED,
Court documents describe Tahkistov as a virulently hateful young man who fantasized about attacking a synagogue and participated in a March 2024 demonstration by an Atlantic City-based “active club” in support of jailed neo-Nazi leader Robert Rundo, [and] was ever-present in the Terrogram Collective’s Telegram channels.
A few days before the Russian invasion, Active Club Indiana reportedly “posted a pro-Russian message,” but this proved to be the exception to the rule. The AC chapter “later deleted the statement and posted a modified comment supporting white people and not one specific side.” In the United States, the Active Club network is most closely allied with the neo-Nazi organization “Patriot Front,” which its far-right rivals deride as an FBI front group, the “Fed Front.” Last year Patriot Front and various Active Clubs tried to exploit the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, putting up fliers and murals. Patriot Front even assembled outside a courthouse in Charlotte, North Carolina to declare “our once prosperous country has been gutted and made into a racial hellscape.”
In the summer of 2023, the neo-Nazi organizations “Blood Tribe” and “Goyim Defense League” marched in Orlando, Florida with the notorious skinhead Kent “Boneface” McLellan, who got away with calling himself an Azov veteran for years. I am rather embarrassed to admit that I am one of those who fell for this hoax. At that point, “Boneface” and Blood Tribe founder Christopher Pohlhaus were admins of the Telegram channel “American Banderite Network” (ABN) which aspired to be an umbrella group for “pro-Ukraine” neo-Nazis in North America. Many if not most of the ABN’s “members” were affiliated with Active Clubs, but others came from WLM Canada, S14, and elsewhere.
Christopher Pohlhaus befriended Denis Kapustin by 2021, and two years later announced that he would be leading “a squad of mostly vets” to Ukraine, and hopefully become the principal neo-Nazi “liaison for the anglosphere.” However, after Boneface’s exposure, the ABN fell apart, which turned out to be run by 16 year old twin brothers from Oregon, and Pohlhaus had a falling out with Kapustin, leading him to renege on his commitment. For some people, these episodes confirmed that the threat of neo-Nazi blowback from Ukraine is overblown.
Christopher Pohlhaus
AC France, which is reportedly more centralized, supports Ukraine, and the RVC in particular. According to the journalist Ali Winston, “Outside of North America, the Active Clubs have proliferated most widely in France, the first European country to start such an organization.” The same article noted that “Sébastien Bourdon, a French journalist with Le Monde’s video investigations unit who authored a forthcoming book on that country’s far-right, says Active Clubs are the fastest-expanding facet of far-right militancy in France.”
Last year Bourdon led a Le Monde investigation of the neo-Nazi cesspool that is the Azov movement’s 3rd Assault Brigade. In 2023, AC Finland shared an image of two “Nationalists from Active Club France & Active Club Finland somewhere in Ukraine.” The French neo-Nazi, who goes by “Kenneth” (allegedly his real name is Gwendal Delange), served in the 3rd Assault Brigade. More recently, Bourdon investigated Kenneth’s unit of French neo-Nazis, now fighting with another far-right group. The video below has subtitles which can be translated.
In 2023, a group of French neo-Nazis, including French army veterans, formed the “Legion Pirates” in the 3rd Assault Brigade’s anti-tank battalion, which was commanded by Oleh Romanov, the neo-Nazi founder of Killhouse Academy. In particular, the French unit joined a company affiliated with the Poltava branch of Centuria, the Azov movement’s paramilitary youth organization. Robert Rundo and “Kenneth” have both expressed support for Nord Storm, a hardcore neo-Nazi group associated with Wotanjugend and the Kharkiv branch of Centuria.
“Kenneth” wearing Nord Storm, Centuria, and SS patches. This year, Rundo shared the image on the right promoting Nord Storm and Centuria’s “knife cult.”
The French “Pirates” are now part of the Revanche Tactical Group in the International Legion under Ukraine’s HUR, or military intelligence agency. Revanche is affiliated with “Tradition and Order” (TiP), another far-right Ukrainian group that thinks globally. TiP formed a German chapter in 2019 and started to work with Denis Kapustin by the following year. Standing in solidarity with the Rise Above Movement, TiP staged a protest in the spring of 2020 outside the U.S. embassy in Kyiv. TiP is allied with the Ukrainian monarchist youth organization “Hetman’s Garrison,” which formed a group in the Revanche unit. Hetman’s Garrison is also active in France, where it is getting to know the monarchist Action Française (AF, or “French Action”).
In February of this year, battling the far-right in the streets of Lyon, French anti-fascists severely beat a 23 year old former AF member, Quentin Deranque. His death a couple days later provided a new martyr for the far-right, and “cast a shadow over elections” as the left took all the blame. Alice Cordier, another former AF member, leads the “femonationalist” group Némesis, which was protesting a lecture by Rima Hassan, a left-wing French-Palestinian politician. It was Cordier who announced, “A member of our security detail is fighting for his life after the Lyon action. He was lynched by young Antifa activists.” In the coming days the French parliament observed a moment of silence, and Nazi salutes were seen at a far-right march in Lyon. Then “Kenneth” posted an old picture of Cordier making a neo-Nazi gesture, and Robert Rundo shared an image of Active Club Finland posing with a flag of the Russian Volunteer Corps and a banner that said “Quentin Present!”
Western journalists and media outlets that have covered the proliferation of Active Clubs and neo-Nazi accelerationists tend to display stunning hypocrisy when it comes to Azov and likeminded groups in Ukraine. For example, in 2018, Frontline PBS and ProPublica made “Documenting Hate: New American Nazis,” an award-winning documentary about the Atomwaffen Division. Last year, Frontline co-produced “2000 Meters to Andriivka,” a documentary starring an openly neo-Nazi unit in the 3rd Assault Brigade, which isn’t even acknowledged to be far-right. The film ends with a torchlit Azovite ceremony and a roll call of martyrs, borrowed from the Italian fascist tradition, with “Presente!” called out after each name.
VICE News stopped covering Azov since the 2022 invasion. Former VICE reporter Ben Makuch, who exposed the Canadian AWD propagandist Patrick MacDonald, has written extensively about Active Clubs, and even the Russian Volunteer Corps. In 2023 he appeared on Democracy Now! for a segment about “The Whitewashing of Neo-Nazis” in Ukraine, but last year, Makuch interviewed a neo-Nazi from the 3rd Assault Brigade about how “Russia is recruiting civilians into its shadow war,” without acknowledging his visible swastika tattoo or the Azov movement.
Mainstream reporters are largely trapped by the dogmatic belief that Russia is the main exporter of far-right politics, which makes Azov an inconvenient topic to write about. For example, last year, The Guardian published an article about “how a Russian fight club expanded into the US with the help of American neo-Nazis.” It concluded with the observation that “it is curious that active club US fighters are getting involved with a pro-Russian invasion group,” because Active Clubs are “supposed to stay neutral in this war.” If anything, they support Ukraine.
Avery Ross Ruiz, a member of Texas’ Lone Star Active Club, leads the new U.S. chapter of “Streets Fight Club,” and it is highly doubtful that he is “pro-Russian invasion.” Robert Rundo is a friend who “coached Ross in his first MMA fight.” Ross is an Instagram follower of Centuria, as well as the medical service of the Azov Brigade, and a Ukrainian fighting league which is connected to the Azov movement. This year he participated in the Patriot Front’s “American Muscle” tournament in South Carolina, and the first “Forest Fights USA” event, hosted by Active Club Pennsylvania. Denis Kapustin appears to be a fan of Forest Fights USA, which follows just 18 accounts on Instagram, including his brand, White Rex.
Ali Winston, perhaps the top journalist when it comes to Active Clubs, is not one to whitewash the Azov movement, and continues to identify it as “neo-Nazi.” But last year, Peter Korotaev (Events in Ukraine) felt compelled to write an article, “American nazis in Kyiv,” after Winston appeared on the “TrueAnon” podcast to discuss neo-Nazi accelerationism. “In short, Winston was quite transparently trying to blame Russia for the post-2020 explosion in rightwing accelerationists in the west. This is apparently part of Putin’s nefarious plan to undermine western civilization.”
In the spring of 2022, Robert Rundo instructed journalists from Bellingcat and the Southern Poverty Law Center, “we are like AZOV but the US version so grow some balls call out azov and show you are a putin shill or tuck tail and write no comment.” One of those journalists, Michael Colborne, had just written a book about the Azov movement, but subsequently took Rundo’s advice and went silent on the topic, except to write an article about the “Boneface” hoax and tell the Washington Post he “wouldn’t call [Azov] explicitly a neo-Nazi movement.”
Colborne also deleted years of social media posts about the far-right in Ukraine. He remains obsessed with Rundo, but no longer seems to think that Azov is relevant. In 2023, WaPo reported that Colborne predicted “any remaining far-right elements within Azov probably would continue to be ‘diluted’ as the unit grows and that the issue had become less important as Ukraine confronts an existential threat.” Let’s just say this take has aged poorly. Around that time, not long after I started to get some traction writing about Azov, Colborne declared that I am a “complete loon” to be avoided “at all costs.”
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