Ukraine’s Azov Battalion is looking for help from Canada. Unit members are not happy with being branded as Neo-Nazis. Recently, U.S. lawmakers voted unanimously to block American troops from training the unit.
Democratic Congressman John Conyers, Jr. joined forces with Republican Congressman Ted Yoho to add an amendment to the Pentagon’s defence spending request. The amendment, passed unanimously by members of both parties, blocks “the training of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary militia Azov Battalion,” Conyers’s office noted.
The unit has continued to face accusations of Neo-Nazi links.
Andrey Dyachenko, a spokesman for the battalion, told USA Today in March that only 10 to …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
