The Azov POWs: Moscow's bargaining chip towards Kyiv | EUROtoday
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The Azov brigade are held in excessive regard throughout Ukraine: first for the 2014 recapturing of Mariupol, after which once more in 2022 after they gained country-wide recognition preventing for Mariupol’s steelworks, Azovstal. Most of the Azov fighters captured across the siege are nonetheless in captivity, as their totemic standing in Ukraine has turned them right into a political device for Russia, which accuses them of “neo-Nazism”. “They are our defenders,” says Kristina Iniieu at an illustration within the Ukrainian capital. “They have done a lot and are still doing a lot. It is a sin to forget about it.”
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