Croatia Key to Ukrainian Far-Right’s International Ambitions

[TomSea]

Croatia Key to Ukrainian Far-Right’s International Ambitions

Illustration: BIRN
Michael Colborne
BIRN
July 18, 2019
A far-right militant movement in Ukraine is forging ties with like-minded politicians and war veterans in European Union member Croatia, a BIRN investigation reveals.

This article is also available in: Bos/Hrv/Srp

Chain-smoking in a Zagreb cafe, 43-year-old Denis Seler would hardly stand out were it not for the word AZOV emblazoned in Cyrillic on the front of his grey sweater.

Seler is a native of the Croatian capital and a veteran of the 1991-95 Croatian war. But his sweater spoke to a more recent fight, and to Seler’s enduring allegiance to a far-right militant movement with Europe-wide ambitions.

In 2014 and 2015, Seler was among 20-30 Croatians who fought as part of the Azov volunteer battalion against Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine, in a war that has killed some 13,000 and rumbles on today despite an official ceasefire.

Read more at: https://balkaninsight.com/2019/07/18/croatia-key-to-ukrainian-far-rights-international-ambitions/

Too important and fascinating a story to pass on, I saw it about 5 days ago.

The story goes on to say Ukraine will intercept "questionable", "neo-Nazi" types from fighting in the war to the East but they might set up a sort of foreign legion for foreigners at some point.

Again, respectful conversation is appreciated.

[PeteS in CA]

I'm no connoisseur of Euro-MSM, but I'm as skeptical of their use of "Far Right" and similar tendentious adjectives as I am of US MSM's use of "White Supremacist" or "Racist". I don't deny that such reprehensible entities exist, I just don't trust the MSM - Euro or US - to use such terms narrowly and accurately rather than to smear normal people whose ideas are different from the MSM's ideas.

So, are these Ukrainian "Far Right" people crazies? Or less loony-lib than the Euro-MSM using that epithet?