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Indeed, Colonel Mykola Urchalovich said yesterday, On the RBK-Ukraine channelThe Azov team has been reorganized and is on the ground in the Donetsk region (east), where it is being implemented. “War Duties” Serebrianka forest.
The battalion’s two thousand fighters made a name for themselves during the siege of Mariupol from February to May 2022, particularly for their resistance against the Azovstal Factory Maze, which they fiercely held before surrendering to the Russians.
Azov came under fire again in June by claiming responsibility for attacks against the Russian military in the Zaporizhia region. At the time, more than half of its members were still in captivity or missing. Meanwhile, its interim leaders were released as part of a prisoner swap with Moscow in the fall of 2022.
The named leaders of the battalion, Denis Prokopenko, Serhii Volinsky, Svyatoslav Palamar, Ole Komenko and Denis Shleha, were also released by Moscow in September 2022 and later transferred to Turkey, where they were to remain until the end of the war. But, eager to take up arms again, they returned to Ukraine in mid-July, angering the Kremlin.
From the beginning of the war, the battalion was raised to the rank of regiment, which increased its strength to 7,000 soldiers.
Azov is a battalion of volunteers originally formed in 2014 as a far-right paramilitary movement for the conflict in the Donbass. That is why, in the campaign to justify the war, Russia took Azov as an excuse. “Denazification” From Ukraine.
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